2. Limbaugh's praise of the Donner Party as heroic cannibals is not an outlier. He was in fact channelling earlier arguments made along this line by William Bennett & David Frum. As @jholbo1 noted long ago, this exaltation of the Donner flesh-eaters helps us understand the right
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3. Earlier, Alex Jones laid out the logical endgame of the right: "I will eat my neighbors...I’m literally looking at my neighbors now and going, ‘I’m ready to hang ’em up and gut ’em and skin ’em.'”https://twitter.com/nancylevine/status/1256276877280374784 …
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4. Cannibalism is, I'd argue, one of the logical endgames of a certain type of libertarian individualism (incest is the other endgame). After all, if it's survival of the fittest and dog eat dog, why wouldn't you put your neighbor on the grill?
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5. Is cannibalism a good solution for Covid? Spoiler alert: I don't think so but I explore why cannibalism does provide a model for what is happening:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cannibalism-cure-limbaugh-coronavirus/ …
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I, for one, have always enjoyed Soylent Green, it’s delicious and so filling. Just hope I don’t gain too much weight....
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The conservative ethos reaches its logical conclusion
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The IHME model now predicts 224,089 deaths by November 1stpic.twitter.com/PSWIDMprin
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No adaptation? WTF does he think wearing a mask is, a fashion choice?
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Can I start by getting some bbq Rush loin?
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