"Marxism:  the methamphetamine of the masses."  -Jordan Peterson

Clarence Thomas is, as always, brilliant in his most recent dissent.  And never at a more consequential time.  If, as the SCOTUS has said previously, "[c]onfidence in the integrity of our electoral process is essential to the functioning of our participatory democracy," why does the Court repeatedly give us no reason to believe in the integrity of our elections by not hearing case after case, no matter how compelling?

As Thomas put it, "One wonders what this Court waits for."

I do not, however, wonder what the Court waits for.  I believe I know:  The left never understands the injustice of what it does until it is done to them.

"In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed, and the boldest staggered. The circumstances are in a great measure new. We have hardly any land-marks from the wisdom of our ancestors, to guide us. At best we can only follow the spirit of their proceeding in other cases."  -Edmund Burke

“The armies separated; and, it is said, Pyrrhus replied to one that gave him joy of his victory that one other such victory would utterly undo him.”  -Plutarch

The left may be having pyrrhic victories at the moment:  After all, they are limiting their own sources of knowledge when they ban right-wingers but are not limiting ours at all.

If speech is violence, what's violence?  Laudable, if you ask NYT's Nikole Hannah-Jones.  The woke left are ruining more lives each year.  John McWhorter is standing up to them like almost no one else is.

John's pointed out that the left have set a series of traps which are impossible for a white person to escape.  E.g.  "Silence about racism is violence. But elevate the voices of the oppressed over your own."

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.  –PJ O’Rourke

https://www.persuasion.community/p/john-mcwhorter-the-neoracists

"If a young black boy cannot dribble well when he comes out to play basketball, no one will cast his problem as an injustice.  No one will worry about his single-parent home, the legacy of slavery that still touches his life, or the inherent racial bias in a game invented by a white man.

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All through the torpor of a day structured to spare his feelings around reading, writing, and arithmetic, he will long to be on the other side of that window, where everything is asked of him."  -Shelby Steele

A Chicago man just received probation for a carjacking.  His 13'th arrest in 14'th months.

A longtime NYT columnist has called for "black power."  This leaves the left alone in its racism:  There is no symmetry between right and left here.

AOC has said Cruz is "trying to get [her] killed."  She should beg forgiveness for such a lie, which ironically puts Cruz in danger.

"The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich."  –PJ O’Rourke

https://cwbchicago.com/2021/02/man-gets-probation-for-carjacking-delivery-driver-in-2019.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/opinion/black-power-us-voting.html

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1354848253729234944