How about we do something novel in the new year? Let's stop worrying about the stuff most politicians, pundits, and activists want us to worry about and instead think about ourselves, our families, our friends, and whatever communities we choose to be part of. Let's forget about "the country" and the rest of the world. Let's individually pursue happiness. All I'm saying is that it's finally time for the politicians, bureaucrats, and know-it-all intelligentsia, left or right, to get out of the way and let us set our own agendas. Too self-centered? Well, too bad. Much evil results from...
Logic
The Human Under the Numbers
The story of Anne Frank is tragic. If not for the words that she wrote in her diary, she would be a digit of history. Her diary is relatable, and the thoughts that collected inside her being during a horrible time in history gives the reader an idea of who she was. She is immortalized because of the little things that she wrote, not because of any great deeds recorded by others. As a victim of tyranny she is remembered as an innocent murdered. She is a story found inside the numbers. Thanks to her diary, we have a human figure to know and mourn, despite the mechanized bureaucratic...
Salafis Throwing Bombs: How American and British Planners Partnered With Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups At the Start of the Syrian Civil War
Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called Jabhat al-Nusra, or the Nusra Front. Additionally, al-Qaeda allegedly did not carry out any military operations until December 2011 and did not announce its establishment until January 2012. However, there is evidence that al-Qaeda affiliated militants were involved in the Syrian conflict much earlier. Saudi intelligence...
Is Virtue Signaling Vicious?
Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network television. Virtue theory, in contrast, is a teleological approach to normative morality concerned with how actions affect one’s soul or character. Historians of philosophy usually trace virtue theory to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, the first extant articulation of ideas such as that habits build character, and virtues...
Under Surveillance w/Brian LaFleur
Brian is a good friend of mine I’d wanted to have on the show for quite a while. He and I have always had a way of interacting with each other about topics most ideologically opposed people can’t discuss. Last year he found himself under surveillance and we decided to have a conversation that revolves around his mindset since this happened. 19 Skills Pdf Autonomy Course Critical Thinking Course Donate Patreon...
MUST KNOW LOGICAL FALLACIES. Sal the Agorist, Pete Quinones, & Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/Z4IC8Xu1328 Arguing for a government monopoly on security is akin to arguing that the New York Times should be the only newspaper, by law. - Michael Malice Sal the Agorist: https://www.saltheagorist.com/ Pete Quinones: https://freemanbeyondthewall.com/ LBRY / Odysee: https://odysee.com/@KeithKnightDontTreadOnAnyone:b/Logic-Sal-Pete-Keith:2 Minds: https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1213138476039225344?referrer=KeithKnightDontTreadOnAnyone Archive:...
10 Must Know Logical Fallacies. James Corbett and Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/Xv70jBOmSkE ... if a man cannot affirm a proposition without employing its negation, he is not only caught in an inextricable self-contradiction; he is conceding to the negation the status of an axiom.... A self-evident axiom ... will be a proposition which cannot be contradicted without employing the axiom itself in the attempt. Murray N. Rothbard Economic Controversies, p. 6-10 ***Excellent PDF*** "How to Win Every Argument - The Use and Abuse of Logic" - https://lbry.tv/@libertariantruther:0/how-to-win-every-argument-the-use-and-abuse-of-logic-viny:8 Support the...
Florida ER Doctor Loses Custody of Daughter Due to Coronavirus
What the hell is this, England? “I was just shocked that the judge would take this stance without talking to medical experts and knowing the facts and take it so lightly, take my child from me and not think of the effect on her, her mental and psychological well-being,” she said. Judge Bernard Shapiro is a criminal. May equivalent harm come to him.
NZ Shooter’s War on the Grey Zone guest Will Porter
Will Porter returns to FPF to discuss the New Zealand shooter's motive. The shooter wanted a war on the 'Grey Zone' in an attempt to try to drive cultures further apart. He was willing to commit disgusting acts of violence to achieve those ends. Will compares the shooter's attack on the 'Grey Zone' to Islamic jihadists. We argue that exposing the shooter's ideological target can help to expose and reject it.
You Know Who I Don’t Like? John Bolton.
He is a bad person. Former SK unification minister Chong Se-hyun suggests that summit was derailed by last minute attendance of Bolton, who added demands for NK to also report chemical/biological weapons, in response to which NKs increased their demand for sanctions relief https://t.co/d7IbkNtqxi— Kevin Gray (@DrKevinGray) February 28,...