Some critics online don't like my welfare work requirement ad. Next thing you know they’ll say I should have used cookies instead of cheese balls. If you are able-bodied you should not collect welfare simply because you choose not to work. Period. WATCH->

"It is impossible to overstate how wrong BLM and reform activists were on this count." I have been a successful propagandist, and I have thoughts about this. Believing your own propaganda too much is risky even when it's true, and extremely dangerous when it's false. This is a chronic problem with left-wing propaganda. In an ideal world, or at least an ideal world from the point of view of a left-wing organizer, propaganda would usefully deceive and demoralize everyone outside the movement while the movement itself remains in contact with reality. But it doesn't work that way. Really skillful propaganda has the emotional hooks to deceive everybody, including your own people. This divorces them from reality and sets them up for rude shocks when the divorce is no longer deniable. I never had this problem, because all of my propaganda was written to make the truth attractive to people who had previous incentives to reject it, rather than peddling a lie. Even so, I knew I had to remain skeptical of my own assertions in order to avoid veering off into cloud-cuckoo-land. The American left doesn't have this luxury. It desperately needs people to believe that the US is a profoundly racist and unjust society in which cops regularly brutalize Black people for no reason. Which...isn't true. Cheap ubiquitous video has demonstrated this. If propaganda worked out in the ideal way, leftists would successfully demoralize others by making them believe this, but retain the ability themselves to deal with the actual fact that Blacks stopped by cops become semi-psychotically violent with enough frequency to justify much more violence than the cops routinely exert. It hasn't worked this way. Because "reform activists" get caught up in their own propaganda, many of them are now reduced to crying that police interactions should *not*? be recorded. Which is absolutely not a position that's going to convince anybody outside their own movement. That position looks like it's designed to give activists room to lie about the problem, and it looks that way because it is that way. I repeat: never fully believe your own propaganda, even if it's nothing but an emotionally compelling presentation of the truth. For that way can lie madness.

This is a key point. Some, feminists like J. K. Rowling, oppose Transgenderism because it harms women, and it does. Some oppose it because it harms children, and it does. These are valid critiques. But the core reason to oppose it is that it is FALSE, radically and evidently false. Anyone who tries seriously to defend it or believe it necessarily puts their own soul and reason in direct opposition to truth, and THIS HAS CONSEQUENCES. Falsehood doesn't merely harm other people, although it does do that; it harms the one who takes it into his heart and mind.

Elon Musk is dumping half a billion dollars into Republican races. Why? Because Democrats in Congress won’t be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump and will actually fight to lower costs.

Find someone who loves you as much as Trump loves Super Intelligence.

Can everyone who’s self righteously proclaiming that “Mormons aren’t Christian” please brush up on what Paul said in 1st Corinthians? Just because you think you’re “proclaiming truth” doesn’t mean you can lambast it on your timeline.

- Layoffs at Sucker Punch - Death of Bioware - Death of 343 - Massive layoffs at Bungie - Death of Ninja Theory - Massive layoffs at Id Software - Double Fine flopping hard - Insomniac Studios ridiculed - Ubisoft in shambles - Wildlight entertainment DOA Should have left my games alone

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