They say they're defending democracy and freedom. Here's what I wrote in response to a similar sentiment on Instapundit: Assuming the Declaration of Independence was about independence, you have to wonder how it promotes independence to (1) regulate sugar intake by controlling Big Gulp size, then doing a 180 and declaring that "fat is beautiful," such that any anti-fat language must be bigotry; (2) enact hate-speech laws or even bandy about the very concept of hate speech; (3) erase female achievements by forcing upon the population the notion that "trans women are women" and not biologically male; (4) enforce an ambient, oppressive cancel culture that squeezes the life out of speech and thought; (5) call black conservatives race traitors, n*ggers, Uncle Toms, etc.; (6) defy the will of the people by keeping Donald Trump off certain state ballots in your desperation to stop the man. I could go on, but you get the idea: to claim you're a patriot cleaving to principles of independence, you first need to believe people should be independent. Maybe start by—oh, I don't know—leaving the rest of us the fuck alone. |
About the Christmas 1963 versus 2023 meme. Kennedy was killed in November 1963. I don't think he posed like that with Jackie in December.
ReplyDeleteI thought about deleting that meme, based on what you said, but the error is so funny (I'm imagining Kennedy posing for that pic with a large chunk of his head missing) that I'm going to leave the meme alone.
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