My point—which the warmongers at The Bulwark cannot comprehend—is that the US succumbed to a postmodern fantasy, imagining that we could turn an illiterate tribal society into a progressive-democratic nation, with Pride celebrations and master's programs in gender studies.
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The neocons and the woke both fell to this illusion: the neocons believed they could install free markets and democratic institutions ("government in a box"); the woke believed they could change 1,000 years of backwards culture through TED Talks and gender programs.
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Ultimately, the neocons sacrificed the sons and daughters of blue-collar America—and then shuffled to new think tanks, solicited donors for new publications, and puffed their hollow chests on MSNBC, claiming a moral high ground above Trump. History will not see them kindly.
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Follow-up: The Spectator has a good write-up about Afghanistan's gender program debacle.https://spectatorworld.com/topic/did-gender-studies-lose-afghanistan/ …
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We need to put together a list of people Jim Swift hates b/c that would actually be a solid list of forward thinking conservative intellectuals
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Jim spends his days just looking over his enemy's Twitter feed and writing about how awful they are.
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amazed at the sassy queen style title the "man" who wrote that article expressed himself in, he doesn't even know to be ashamed of himself
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it’s more than hundreds of Afghans and MIT Technology Review paints a grim reality of how extensive the biometrics abandoned to the Taliban enabling them to hunt down allies who relied on us arehttps://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/30/1033941/afghanistan-biometric-databases-us-military-40-data-points/ …
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Young's take clearly illustrates how empathisation clouds systematic analyses. She doesn't get it.
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This text was mind-boggling: Yet a look at the sources, ..., makes it obvious that the book used “countergenocide” to mean resistance to the “genocide” of native populations by white Christians, not genocide in response to genocide.
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