SOTI (commenting about the (post-Christchurch) KiwiGov’s reaction to people critical of the policy of welcoming “migrants”):
Multiculturalism is a such a runaway success that it requires a Big Brother police state to make it work.
Just like, errrr socialism:
…does not come from this website, for a change. As we all know, Georgia was smacked by a couple tornadoes a little while ago, and while there was a lot of damage, this house miraculously escaped, pretty much unscathed, despite being directly in the tornado’s path.
And in the comments below the article came this absolute gem:
“We no longer glorify heroic deeds, we glorify heroic suffering.” — Greg Cochran
Yup. To be a member of a “victimized” class (women, Blacks, LGBTOSHTFU, etc.) is the sine qua non of modern heroism. But the holder of a Medal of Honor or Victoria Cross? War criminal.
All of which reminds me: it’s Range Day at this address.
From Longtime Reader Fred Z:
“Much, possibly most, of modern life should be ignored.”
From a commenter on this post:
“[James] Madison was 25 in 1776; by the time he was [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s] current age he was drafting the Constitution.”
Compare and contrast Madison’s output with that of Horseface’s Green New Deal.
And people wonder why we old-fashioned conservatives revere bygone times, and their inhabitants…