Comments on: Freedom of expression and the left https://thenewneo.com/2021/01/15/freedom-of-expression-and-the-left/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 16 Jan 2021 22:51:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Bryan Lovely https://thenewneo.com/2021/01/15/freedom-of-expression-and-the-left/#comment-2535951 Sat, 16 Jan 2021 22:51:43 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=103362#comment-2535951 AesopFan —

It makes a nice clickbaity headline, but all that farmland isn’t really very much.

242,000 acres = 378 sq. mi. = a square 19.5 miles on a side
420,000 acres = 656 sq. mi. = a square 25.6 miles on a side

That would disappear into some family-owned ranches I’m aware of. Not to mention, say, Iowa.

]]> By: FOAF https://thenewneo.com/2021/01/15/freedom-of-expression-and-the-left/#comment-2535948 Sat, 16 Jan 2021 22:14:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=103362#comment-2535948 Bill: “no word spoken by the left has any real meaning.”

Yep, “the issue is never the issue”. Also there is one of my favorite quotes, ironically attributed to Mao Tse-tung: “I like dealing with rightists. They tell you what they really think unlike the leftists who say one thing and mean another”.

]]> By: Bill+M https://thenewneo.com/2021/01/15/freedom-of-expression-and-the-left/#comment-2535926 Sat, 16 Jan 2021 16:42:25 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=103362#comment-2535926 FDR in his 1944 state of the union said a return to normalcy was a surrender to the forces we’re currently fighting. So it goes farther back than Willkie; Harding and Coolidge were nazis too.
It help to begin by assuming that no word spoken by the left has any real meaning.
So Neo, a couple of posts back, you wrote about clashes between Neo-Nazis and Antifa. There are no criteria for the left to call someone a Neo-Nazi; I doubt very many of those “Neo-Nazis” held beliefs which would justify the use of the term.

]]> By: JohnTyler https://thenewneo.com/2021/01/15/freedom-of-expression-and-the-left/#comment-2535922 Sat, 16 Jan 2021 15:50:16 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=103362#comment-2535922 Occasionally you see comments about the left “over reaching” or “eating their own,” which ultimately leads to their demise.

The problem is the time it takes for its demise can be 50 to 100 years or more.
Just look at the longevity of the former USSR (70 years), N.Korea (70 years),
Cuba (60 years), the Eastern Bloc nations (45 years), Venezuela (so far 20 years about) , Communist China (70 years).
Four of the above nations are still going strong (strong, as in the ruling elite doing just fine, economically that is, and maintaining a stranglehold on power).

It’s mostly true that eventually a totalitarian state will come apart but oft times it must be helped in falling apart.
As long as the tyrannical leaders of totalitarian state are willing to use any and all means to subdue the citizenry , including mass murder, they will maintain their grip on power.

]]> By: David+Foster https://thenewneo.com/2021/01/15/freedom-of-expression-and-the-left/#comment-2535917 Sat, 16 Jan 2021 14:32:21 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=103362#comment-2535917 Thanks, Laurence. “Twitter and other social media have become the “Wall Newspapers” of our country”…I’m afraid so.

Speaking of social media, see also my post Freedom, the Village, and Social Media:

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/58551.html

]]> By: LAURENCE JARVIK https://thenewneo.com/2021/01/15/freedom-of-expression-and-the-left/#comment-2535916 Sat, 16 Jan 2021 14:17:55 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=103362#comment-2535916 David+Foster what an excellent article…made me realize Twitter and other social media have become the “Wall Newspapers” of our country—sad!

]]> By: David+Foster https://thenewneo.com/2021/01/15/freedom-of-expression-and-the-left/#comment-2535913 Sat, 16 Jan 2021 13:56:42 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=103362#comment-2535913 I quoted from ‘We the Living’ in my 2014 post, Life in the Fully Politicized Society:

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/42932.html

]]> By: David+Foster https://thenewneo.com/2021/01/15/freedom-of-expression-and-the-left/#comment-2535912 Sat, 16 Jan 2021 13:55:05 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=103362#comment-2535912 Laurence Jarvik…”Read Ayn Rand’s “We the Living” for a good description of the Soviet model now deploying here.” By far the best-written of her books, probably because based in part on her own experiences in the Soviet Union.

There is also a quite good movie based on the book, made in Fascist Italy of all places. (the censors were a little slow on the uptake, but they did eventually catch on)

]]> By: Philip Sells https://thenewneo.com/2021/01/15/freedom-of-expression-and-the-left/#comment-2535911 Sat, 16 Jan 2021 13:38:54 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=103362#comment-2535911 David Foster – that is true. It would be interesting to compare maps of ‘peak wind’ patterns on the continent against the locations of the parcels in question. I guess I was thinking a little more apocalyptically.

]]> By: David+Foster https://thenewneo.com/2021/01/15/freedom-of-expression-and-the-left/#comment-2535906 Sat, 16 Jan 2021 13:24:05 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=103362#comment-2535906 Farming and wind turbines appear to be compatible uses of the same property. It may be that these large purchasers of farmland are counting on income streams from electricity, as well from crops.

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