Soft Totalitarianism

The Sovietization of American culture.

[Update a few minutes later]

A conservative pretends that there is allowable debate in America.

[Update late morning]

Black Lives Matter must be beyond criticism. Professor Jacobson is clearly guilty of wrongthink.

[Update Friday morning]

We refuse mob rule.

Kurt Schlichter certainly refuses to bow before them.

Persecution Is Cool

Bob Zimmerman, on the cancel culture within the space and science community.

Keith has blocked me on Twitter, and I suspect I’m on a lot of blocklists. I follow a lot of space people, like Carolyn, but only engage them on space and science topics. I don’t argue non-space politics with space people, because many of them are leftist loons, which is why I maintain separate accounts for space stuff and the book.

[Update Wednesday morning]

The Great Awokening.

Get Woke

Go depopulated. Almost twenty percent of Minneapolis real estate has gone on the market in the last week. Though, to be fair, this could just be a combination of a summer uptick, and pent-up supply from months of shutdown in which it was hard to do a real-estate transaction.

But if it’s due to rioting, I suspect this will be the fate of a lot of cities in the coming months and years, including Seattle. I suspect our home value will hold up, though. Always going to be demand to live near the beach in LA County.

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