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Nobody is perfect, but some people are closer than others on the perfection scale (but even Jesus fucked up sometimes - he could have a bit of an anger management problem sometimes). I don't find Rufo to be the conservative demon others think he is, and Claudine Gay is no angel. As you point out, sometimes he gets it right, at other times....not so much. Even people who are faaaaar away from the end point on the Perfection Spectrum are right *sometimes*. One of my favourite quotes comes from a white supremacist (can't remember his name) who said if you want to know who rules you, look to whom you may not criticize. I'm sure he's an awful person in many ways, and wrong about soooooo, so many things but...he was right about this. And they who *we* may not criticize now is transactivists or transgenderism. But that's changing.

I don't agree with everything Jordan Peterson says, but I think he makes some good points about personal responsibility his young male fan base need to hear, even if I'm not fond of his Judaeo-Christian bent.

I can't stand Jessica Valenti, the uber-victimized babygirl feminist on Medium who so annoyed me with her fragile, women-are-above-reproach criticism, that I muted here there...didn't *block* her, because no one's wrong about *everything*. And once, she did write a good, strong, feminist article. I don't remember what it was about, it was so long ago. She's here on Substack writing only about abortion from what I see so I probably would hate her less. But I'll bet she's still a whiny little babygirl. Still, every once in awhile she gets it right....

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"Even people who are faaaaar away from the end point on the Perfection Spectrum are right *sometimes*."

I really wish this idea wasn't so out of fashion pretty much all across the political spectrum. Like everybody else, I have my thoughts on who does better or worse on the perfection spectrum. But I still listen to people on the far end if I have any reason to believe what they say is true. And if they're right, I'll happily give credit where it's due. You have to reach Alex Jones levels before I'll just dismiss you out of hand.

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One thing I've come around to with Trump on: Immigration. Yeah, Biden, Obama and other Democrats just don't grasp the concept of sane immigration. Even *I'm* wanting a wall now, and I don't even live next door to Mexico! I'm not going to vote for Trump of course (I'm going to vote indy if I can find someone who's not too much of a fuckwit on women's rights) but yeah...he's right about immigration *now*. I'm not at all sure he was when he was PRez. Now, something's gotta stem the Bidentide....I'm hoping it'll be someone other than Trump.

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