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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Some much-needed money is coming to people when they need it most, as everyone in Congress is now getting a $100,000 bonus for coming up with such a great coronavirus relief bill.'This comes at a crucial time, as people like me are really struggling right now,' said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. 'Struggling to ...
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Joe Rogan said it's "so hypocritical" for people to tweet about social justice on devices made by "child slaves"
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A student at UC Berkeley made a deal with Matt Walsh. Sell 100 of Matt's books then he would watch an entire season of anime live!
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Jared Taylor, a self-proclaimed ‘race realist’, distanced Trump from the alt-right, the racially divisive fringe movement Clinton denounced in a recent speech
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Last night Don Lemon of CNN interviewed the so called 'Plaid Shirt Guy', who was asked to leave the Trump rally in Montana after making face expressions during the President's speech. During the interview he
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Lawsuits pit a sitting president against three major media outlets covering his re-election bid
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WalMart is removing more guns and giving their records to the ATF; meanwhile, the ATF is being extra shady.#2A #guncontrol #WalMartGOA membership: https://gu...
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President Biden is going to Walter Reed Medical Center Friday for a routine physical, one day before he turns 79.
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"Upping the ante on Kaepernick..."
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Footage, meant to serve as proof that the Syrian government has conducted a chemical attack in Idlib, Syria, is to be handed to global news outlets...
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Islamists pelted campaigners with stones, shoes and sticks as they marched throu...
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Actor George Clooney once again slammed Republicans and President Donald Trump, who the "Midnight Sky" actor trashed as a "charismatic carnival barker."
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Fatigued from the punishing and arbitrary restrictions, we saw South Dakota like a man dying of thirst sees a glass of water.
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Confirmation of what many have suspected for a long time.
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The intellectual dishonesty going on in today’s political and academic discourse is one of the greatest threats facing our society. People have become far too stubborn and arrogant. They are not willing to have a reasonable discussion and are not open to outside ideas. Because of this people put themselves into bubbles of their own making; they create artificial safe-spaces and echo-chambers where they do not have to deal with the self-reflection and disappointment that comes with being questioned and being wrong.
These bubbles are akin to a self-imposed imprisonment—a place where we lock our minds into cages and through away the key. This habit is exacerbated by the development of the Internet into its modern manifestation–a dopamine fueled mock-colosseum–where we put up the facade of a true fight between competing ideas, when in reality it is just our ideas competing against the attenuated strawmen of our opponents for the goal of instant gratification. This cowardly affair is hazardous to the health of public discourse.
The danger of this cushioned internet does not come as a direct result of the technology but rather a self-imposed side-effect. This danger arises from the complacency developed by the padded rooms that are the majority of forums, messageboards, and social media sites. We cannot have true evolution of ideas into that darwinian ideal of an argument perfectly suited for its environment if we do not open the gates and allow dangerous and alien ideas to compete for the same resources (attention and retention) as our own.
This mind-caging has atrophied our discourse and lessened the ability of our ideas to defend themselves. When an animal is free of predatory threats or has little competition for resources it becomes like the Dodobird–weak, slow, dumb, and unknowingly suicidal. The same applies to ideas. An idea if left in a bubble will become weak, slow, dumb, and unknowingly willing to let a hostile ideology wipe it out.
It is imperative that we, as members of society, recognize when we have constructed a bubble around ourselves and do whatever we can to burst these bubbles with the sharp stick of new ideas. If we fail to do this, the ideas that are the basis of modern western civilization will be conquered, destroyed, and forgotten to the sands of time; they will be violently overwhelmed by a hostile ideology antithetical to our own.
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The New York Times #FakeNews boys are at it again
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There were tips about him before...
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Andrew Trunsky Vermont Democratic Rep. Peter Welch announced that he would forgo reelection and instead launch a bid to succeed Sen. Patrick Leahy on
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If Americans are barred from even voting for their chosen candidate, then America doesn't have a democracy to begin with.
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A Muslim activist group in New York is requesting that the words “Islamic terrorists” be removed from a 9/11 memorial.
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At least eight people were killed and 30 more injured by gun violence over Christmas weekend
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"General Hospital" star Steve Burton confirmed he has been ousted from his longtime gig after he did not comply with production's vaccine mandate.
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News Analysis A major new autopsy report has found that three people who died unexpectedly at home with no pre-existing ...
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While it's too soon to fully assess how much political damage the deplorables remark will cause Hillary Clinton, voters and strategists alike expressed frustration with Clinton's tin ear.
