Ep. 185: "Democracy" = State Control

Left or Right, it's never been about their professed "principles." On the Left, popular lefty meme page "The Other 98%" shows this by sharing a meme asserting that men can't have an opinion on abortion simply because they can't give birth. But wait... isn't it the Left that can't tell us what a woman is, says it's "transphobic" to assume someone's gender, and believes that one's gender can change every second? How is it possible that they even know whether a man, woman, or otherkin is capable of giving birth, let alone have the moral authority to determine when someone is allowed to voice an opinion purely on that basis? Unless, of course, it's all made up and their incessant sloganeering is nothing more than elaborate special pleading on their own behalf to assure that they're always morally correct. On the Right, the "free speech" "freedom" fighters that just learned (apparently not) the hard lesson of what their political enemies can and will do to them if they have the government power to make it happen (see: Covid and the "Twitter Files"), yet are all too eager to give more power over to the state to arbitrarily decide when a company is allowed to operate in the U.S., by pushing (and siding with unanimous Democrats in the U.S. House) a bill to force the divestment of or ban TikTok. There's a lot of ignorant screeching on the Right about China's alleged ownership/control of TikTok, but it is generally devoid of key facts and oblivious to the main fact that this will set the precedent to ban other platforms disliked by the establishment, namely X.  If there's one thing we can consistently count on the establishment Left and Right to do, it is to abandon any and all of their professed "principles" when it's hardest to stick to them and when it matters most.