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Thoughts on the trans-focused court opinion, local ‘leaders’ in Florida debating ICE training for their police, the outbreak of anti-Musk and anti-Tesla hysteria, standardized tests, criminal sentencing guidelines, & a few other things…
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May 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Thoughts on the trans-focused court opinion, local ‘leaders’ in Florida debating ICE training for their police, the outbreak of anti-Musk and anti-Tesla hysteria, standardized tests, criminal sentencing guidelines, & a few other things…
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-femini...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-femini...
In this new, pervasive scheme, feelings become the guide for legal operation: if officials are angry, punishments will be levied. If they feel pity, penalties will be withheld. This is now, in many courtrooms. the guiding conception…
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-femini...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-femini...
May 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In this new, pervasive scheme, feelings become the guide for legal operation: if officials are angry, punishments will be levied. If they feel pity, penalties will be withheld. This is now, in many courtrooms. the guiding conception…
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-femini...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-femini...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-schism...
Historically, this kind of intra-elite competition keeps escalating until things get violent and ugly. Those who’ve been dethroned won’t go into exile willingly. They already sold their souls to the devil for power…
Historically, this kind of intra-elite competition keeps escalating until things get violent and ugly. Those who’ve been dethroned won’t go into exile willingly. They already sold their souls to the devil for power…
May 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-schism...
Historically, this kind of intra-elite competition keeps escalating until things get violent and ugly. Those who’ve been dethroned won’t go into exile willingly. They already sold their souls to the devil for power…
Historically, this kind of intra-elite competition keeps escalating until things get violent and ugly. Those who’ve been dethroned won’t go into exile willingly. They already sold their souls to the devil for power…
Why and how do people suck? This essay tries to explain everything…
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/people-suck
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/people-suck
May 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Why and how do people suck? This essay tries to explain everything…
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/people-suck
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/people-suck
If this was totalitarianism we would see commissars. We might call them DEI officers, bias response teams, sensitivity readers. We would see Lysenkoism, the corruption of science by ideology, where people are punished and excluded for their dissent.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/substack-n...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/substack-n...
March 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
If this was totalitarianism we would see commissars. We might call them DEI officers, bias response teams, sensitivity readers. We would see Lysenkoism, the corruption of science by ideology, where people are punished and excluded for their dissent.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/substack-n...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/substack-n...
We don’t trust the experts because they have proved themselves untrustworthy… through their treatment of dissenters, their unwillingness to admit error & their cowardice when it came time to express honest and unpopular opinions.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/quietly-co...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/quietly-co...
March 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
We don’t trust the experts because they have proved themselves untrustworthy… through their treatment of dissenters, their unwillingness to admit error & their cowardice when it came time to express honest and unpopular opinions.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/quietly-co...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/quietly-co...
I don’t really care what Gavin Newsom is up to. His state is a governing disaster, producing interstate refugees by the millions. Education, cost of living, crime, new construction, homelessness, home prices-CA is dead last in each of these categories.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-gavin-...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-gavin-...
March 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I don’t really care what Gavin Newsom is up to. His state is a governing disaster, producing interstate refugees by the millions. Education, cost of living, crime, new construction, homelessness, home prices-CA is dead last in each of these categories.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-gavin-...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-gavin-...
Modern therapeutic and disability claims, pop psychology, anti-racism, Trump derangement… all can be seen as promotions of subjectivity and emotional reality above the reality of society or the world.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/2-visions-...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/2-visions-...
March 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Modern therapeutic and disability claims, pop psychology, anti-racism, Trump derangement… all can be seen as promotions of subjectivity and emotional reality above the reality of society or the world.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/2-visions-...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/2-visions-...
While the Left used to be intellectually promiscuous and full of ferment and diversity, they now contain essentially two impulses: (1) identity politics/social justice and (2) government spending on clients and nonprofits.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/a-clear-pa...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/a-clear-pa...
March 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
While the Left used to be intellectually promiscuous and full of ferment and diversity, they now contain essentially two impulses: (1) identity politics/social justice and (2) government spending on clients and nonprofits.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/a-clear-pa...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/a-clear-pa...
There are reformers, who are dissatisfied with the status quo (for various reasons) and are working for radical change, and there are protectors of that status quo.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/substack-n...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/substack-n...
March 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
There are reformers, who are dissatisfied with the status quo (for various reasons) and are working for radical change, and there are protectors of that status quo.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/substack-n...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/substack-n...
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The only thing I can say is that no one is sleeping on the laptop
March 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The only thing I can say is that no one is sleeping on the laptop
Patriotism requires children. When there are too few children in society the concept of ‘home’ and ‘future’ become matters of bias, fashion, identity. For a country to maintain a vital national spirit there must be many children.
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March 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Patriotism requires children. When there are too few children in society the concept of ‘home’ and ‘future’ become matters of bias, fashion, identity. For a country to maintain a vital national spirit there must be many children.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/substack-n...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/substack-n...
The old institutional structures of information flow and collective sense-making have collapsed. Regimes can either accept their diminishment… or use increasingly coercive tactics to maintain control.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/horizontal...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/horizontal...
March 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The old institutional structures of information flow and collective sense-making have collapsed. Regimes can either accept their diminishment… or use increasingly coercive tactics to maintain control.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/horizontal...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/horizontal...
Dear leftwingers: If progress and tolerance and decency are your core attributes why are you only gaining support among educated, comfortable, white urbanites?
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/some-frien...
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March 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Dear leftwingers: If progress and tolerance and decency are your core attributes why are you only gaining support among educated, comfortable, white urbanites?
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/some-frien...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/some-frien...
Our culture often tolerates and even encourages hostility and disdain of straight white men (or men, or white people, etc.). This is a gleeful and socially celebrated habit in many spaces and it’s a bad thing, more for the haters than for the SWM.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-scapeg...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-scapeg...
March 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Our culture often tolerates and even encourages hostility and disdain of straight white men (or men, or white people, etc.). This is a gleeful and socially celebrated habit in many spaces and it’s a bad thing, more for the haters than for the SWM.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-scapeg...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-scapeg...
The enemy has collapsed. Decades of preference falsification have come apart, as they always do, in a preference cascade – people admitting that they don’t actually believe the things they pretended to believe…
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/substack-n...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/substack-n...
March 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The enemy has collapsed. Decades of preference falsification have come apart, as they always do, in a preference cascade – people admitting that they don’t actually believe the things they pretended to believe…
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/substack-n...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/substack-n...
Media Guide, Part 3: Framing, Focus, Influence, CONTROL open.substack.com/pub/jmpolemi...
…the media constrains and manipulates dialogue by choosing who to platform, what to focus on, and how to discuss issues and phrase questions.
…the media constrains and manipulates dialogue by choosing who to platform, what to focus on, and how to discuss issues and phrase questions.
February 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Media Guide, Part 3: Framing, Focus, Influence, CONTROL open.substack.com/pub/jmpolemi...
…the media constrains and manipulates dialogue by choosing who to platform, what to focus on, and how to discuss issues and phrase questions.
…the media constrains and manipulates dialogue by choosing who to platform, what to focus on, and how to discuss issues and phrase questions.
I conceptualize modern Leftist political leanings as inversions of and gestures against the natural human ties of affection and affiliation. These inverted displays are superficial, though…
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/ordo-amori...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/ordo-amori...
February 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I conceptualize modern Leftist political leanings as inversions of and gestures against the natural human ties of affection and affiliation. These inverted displays are superficial, though…
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/ordo-amori...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/ordo-amori...
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”
-George Orwell
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-George Orwell
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February 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”
-George Orwell
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/silence-as...
-George Orwell
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/silence-as...
Understand that the Left’s maligned scapegoat is and it all falls into place.
A government can manipulate, misinform, and oppress in the name of progressive values. It did so for years.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
A government can manipulate, misinform, and oppress in the name of progressive values. It did so for years.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
February 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Understand that the Left’s maligned scapegoat is and it all falls into place.
A government can manipulate, misinform, and oppress in the name of progressive values. It did so for years.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
A government can manipulate, misinform, and oppress in the name of progressive values. It did so for years.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
The Left pretends that, because they valorize immigrants or promote trans activism, they can’t be totalitarian. ANY set of values arranged against free expression and individual agency can be totalitarian.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
February 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The Left pretends that, because they valorize immigrants or promote trans activism, they can’t be totalitarian. ANY set of values arranged against free expression and individual agency can be totalitarian.
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
They create a class of people who believe that their opinions and their degrees have made them compassionate and enlightened…. When they buy uses or enroll their kids in school or compete for jobs they will use the credentials and status…
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-schism...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-schism...
February 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
They create a class of people who believe that their opinions and their degrees have made them compassionate and enlightened…. When they buy uses or enroll their kids in school or compete for jobs they will use the credentials and status…
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-schism...
jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-schism...
