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What is the Alt.Right?

What is the Alt. Right, is a popular question right now, presumably because the so-called Alt.Right is seen as having an effect on the recent U.S presidential election and to a lesser extent the rise of nationalist parties in Europe. Commentators like Milo Yiannopoulos have tried to paint the Alt.Right as simply right leaning citizens who distrust mainstream politics, and established political parties (including the GOP) which to a certain extent that's true. Unfortunately, however, it is not the whole truth. On the left many would describe Ben Shapiro and Yianopoulos both as prime examples of the Alt.Right, going so far as to smear them as white supremacists. Shapiro and Yiannopolous don't agree on much, but I'm sure neither would you accuse the other of harbouring views of white supremacy. Although Shapiro does recognize the white nationalist/supremacy element in the Alt. Right that Yiannopoulos tries to downplay or ignore as to insignificant to matter. Perhaps i...

Trudeau Jr. a.k.a Little Potato, a.k.a PM Selfie demonstrates his stupidity on the world stage

Poor Justin Trudeau, right now he's probably wondering why suddenly he's facing criticism? After all that's not supposed to be part of the media script. He's supposed to say stuff, like, important stuff, and then they're supposed to express how wonderful he is, coo about his cool yoga poses and his great hair. Not laugh at him. But this past week that's exactly what the world is doing, having a good laugh at Justin's lavish praise for his Uncle Fidel who recently passed away. The rest of the world knew him as the murderous dictator of Cuba, Fidel Castro. The man who imprisoned gays for the crime of being gay (but don't worry Justin, you'll still be invited to all the pride marches this summer) Castro also summarily executed thousands of dissidents and thousands more after mock trials. Many found themselves imprisoned indefinitely for not showing enough love to this "much loved leader." Even the newspaper of record for the far left, T...

The horribleness of dating people with different opinions

One of Canada's national newspapers, the left leaning Globe & Mail ( the other being the left leaning National Post) ran a column last weekend by the horribly oppressed Tina Petrick. Petrick describes herself as a single woman nearing thirty (women are, as much as they try to deny it, consciously aware of their sell by date) trying to navigate the minefield of dating that is Calgary. For non-Canadian readers, Calgary is Canada's Dallas, the capital of the country's oil and gas industry. A once very prosperous city, it attracted people like Petrick looking for the new opportunities that a robust economy provides. Unfortunately so many of Petrick's type have moved to Calgary and the province of Alberta that a year and half a go they voted in a socialist government and the economy has tanked. That hasn't caused every capitalist in the city and province to flee, there's still a lot of money in Alberta that the government hasn't taxed away yet, and Petrick ...

Fake News Sites

There has of late been great media consternation about the proliferation of fake news sites that mislead voters and generally misinform. There is a growing movement within the MSM, college campuses and even at the White House to have these types of news sites banned. Well, as a free speech absolutist I'm not in favour of restricting anyone's right to publish misleading and even downright false information (as long as it's not slandering an individual). However, as a public service, since there is so much concern over 'news' sites like these, I've compiled a list of some of the most egregious fake news sites online. They range from sites that bend stories to fit a certain narrative to others who create elaborate fake stories, or feature opinion writers writing columns that many of today's university students would consider hate speech (such as the Guardian's Julie Bindel advocating putting all men in concentration camps). At any rate consider yourself f...

Swastikas and other SJW Hoaxes

The post Trump election fad among the whining class is to fake hate crimes through the use of Nazi imagery and KKK/white supremacist slogans. I say fad, but in fact these fake hate crimes are crimes, vandalism and mischief as far as the criminal code goes, and a horrible crime against society. It's one thing to protest Trump's election, and another thing entirely to try create a narrative out of whole cloth that Trump's election has unleashed a wave of hate crimes (in Canada as well as the U.S). No sooner had Hillary conceded the election in the early hours of Nov 9th than would be SJWs were on social media saying Muslim women were scared of having their hijabs ripped off their heads based on absolutely nothing but their own fevered imaginations. Then lo and behold in the days following the election we suddenly heard story after of women having their hijabs ripped from their heads. Of course there were no witnesses to any of these crimes, and in more than one case it wa...

The Fantasy World of the Anti-Trumpers

It's hardly a revelation that those on the left often have a tenuous relation with reality. After all how do you reconcile free university education and free healthcare for 320 million people if you're not able to simply divorce yourself from basic economics (they really do believe the U.S can simply print enough money to make all their socialist dreams come true). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-8spGrLrUM Those ideas were fervently embraced by the Bernie Sanders supporters, who apparently thought that Bernie's idea of turning America into a latter day Weimar Republic was just the sort of bold thinking needed for today's problems. How they might have divorced themselves from the reality of no longer being able to afford consumer goods might have been comic relief as we watched the economy self-destruct under a Sander's presidency, but that would have been a small consolation indeed. Instead Hillary won, er, that is had the Democratic nomination given to her, an...