@stevelafleur.bsky.social on how a society w/guns reduces freedom www.liberalcurrents.com/a-canadian-p...
@jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com on how elections are purely practical www.liberalcurrents.com/elections-ar...
@janetbufton.ca against closed borders www.liberalcurrents.com/closed-borde...

Thank you @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social for your kind words of support.

Let's commit more time and resources to making 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 the best and biggest version of itself that it can be. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...

They should be trying even if they can't do it on any given time just to teach people that it's a legal possibility.

Follow it with @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com

The way to get back to the arguments they feel well-versed in is to defend the open society in which those arguments are again the most relevant.

Read @iandunt.bsky.social for a demonstration of the righteousness with which the values of the open society need defending.

Libertarians and conservatives who oppose authoritarian nationalism in my life are struggling to let this go. Maybe they think it's the same as saying that these things don't matter. It is not. It's prioritizing.

All but the most partisan among us have always had to accept political disappointment.

People are going to get upset about the devilled egg who wouldn't get upset about a little mayo and mustard in a Thanksgiving sandwich (and they forget that eggs make everything better).

"But I’m not sure Ottawa fully understands that it even needs to make the pitch."

I feel like the political left and centre have completely forgotten how to do persuasive politics. The whole plan is to implement policies and assume they'll make their own case. But they don't!

We have Thanksgiving, it's just on a Monday in October. We eat most of the sides (e.g., no sweet potato and marshmallows, way less mac and cheese). We have another turkey dinner at Christmas.

The mystery lies in the holiday practically kiboshing a whole week, and in that it's such a big deal.

"We thought we were making satire..."

Did you read Ghosts of Iron Mountain? The story starts with a description of the absolutely savage sounding satire of the 1960s (so a little earlier) then goes on a journey that the caption on the quoted post brought to mind.

The Humanitarian with the Guillotine is the only part of TGOTM I've read, and rereading it this year made me so angry that I wrote that all at once in a rage.

But I've seen excerpts of how much worse it gets, and hooo boy.

Even Isabel Paterson thought that everyone who opposes government humanitarian aid would sign on if it would work!