Boutique Bolshevism

On the lunacy of the DSA and the loons who support it, including apparently the “big tent” Democrats.

[Afternoon update]

Yes, McCarthy was right:

Not clear how to post it in English, but there will probably be an option to translate from the French at the link.

10 thoughts on “Boutique Bolshevism”

  1. I just high lighted it, right clicked, and selected translate.
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    Elon Musk wrote a sentence this morning that the school taught you to find obscene: McCarthy was right (obviously). “You were taught to hate this name like you learn a multiplication table, without ever telling you what it saw, and that’s precisely why the… https://t.co/en8zp64n3g pic.twitter.com/9KCcChoGsC

        1. Maybe not. The translation code didn’t make the shift away from how French uses articles (that is, determinative adjectives). So “l’ecole” means “school” not “the school.” Etc. Try “This morning Elon Musk said…” and it’s not AI. The original French is okay as is.

  2. It’s worth clicking through — quite long for an X post, but saying somthing others miss.

    Finishes up with:
    “McCarthy was right about the essential: institutions can be taken, ideas can colonize a country more surely than an army, and those who say it first are always treated as the problem. A civilization is rebuilt by builders, not by commissioners of the narrative. By those who believe that truth exists and that it’s worth devoting oneself to it.

    And back to work.”

  3. Defending McCarthy for the sake of anti-communism is like defending Che Guevara for the sake of Communism. You’re defending an evil person merely because someone is attacking the ideology via that person.

    McCarthy pursued his Communist hunt for personal gain, attacked US institutions without evidence, and frankly didn’t really care whether his targets were communist supporters or not.

    There are better hills to die on than defending political opportunists.

    1. Excellent points that people need to bear in mind. Someone can be on “my side” without being a good person or doing good works. And people can be on the “other side” without being evil. I can oppose a policy without villainizing the ones proposing it just as I can support a policy without worshiping those proposing it.

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