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Identity is getting to the heart of the matter. Sun Tzu says if you don't know who you are and you don't know who your enemy is, you will lose every battle.

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What is claimed to be ignorance or foolishness is not; it's a cover for corruption and tyranny. Covid wasn't about the flu, it was about an excuse to reward ones friends and punish ones enemies. Ditto global warming, the upcoming food and water shortages, BLM, and pretty much every other crisis and emergency they dream up.

We need to stop giving these people the benefit of the doubt; their leaders know exactly what they are doing and why.

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Post modernism. What is truth. Subjective thus relative truth has caused mayhem and chaos. With the slow death of Christanity government has become god…

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"Why is common sense so important? Its just common sense!"

As I read it, this article is a collection of conservative complaints about society, which is fine to write about I think, but if you want to go beyond propogandizing your POV and actually win hearts and minds in the long term, you gotta build object-level models for why what is happening is happening (where'd the bowling alleys go? Why are houses so expensive?, etc.) and then convince people other models of the world are wrong so they get on the same page for what category of solutions are needed. For people who have already took the dive into requiring empirical evidence and strong logical foudations for their beliefs (as opposed to appeals to authority or interpretations of scripture), appealing to common sense aint gonna do squat!

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Give this a SHARE.

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Common sense, I suppose is taken for granted, as it common = low status. It should though be respected and allowed to live up to its name. That which we share - like the senses fidelium of a religion - is shared by enough people for it to become part of our reality, and probably taken for granted in the way that water flows downhill. What happens though when what is ‘common’ is not shared but just one person’s opinion? There are only two results - chaos, or (to avoid said chaos) a new sense, imposed by force.

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> open borders are good for the economy

It will tho, imagine the housing prices and the investment bankers who are worried about the cost of labor

"just buy a home and dont sell labor"

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