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The Danger of Idea Laundering: Mein Kampf and Social Justice

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The Danger of Idea Laundering: Mein Kampf and Social Justice

The Danger of Idea Laundering: Mein Kampf and Social Justice

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 7 minutesIn essence, idea laundering works through systemic infiltration of ideological malfeasance in the peer-review process. The grievance studies showed how this works, so I won’t go into too much detail (all the professors involved are liberal; Dr. Boghossian wrote “A Manual for Creating Atheists, so their worldview is humanist), but I’ll break it down a bit.

Opinion: If You’re Not Burning Down Your Own Home or Work, You’re Complicit in Racism

Opinion: If You’re Not Burning Down Your Own Home or Work, You’re Complicit in Racism

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesWishing you a brightly burning future, and remember: if you don’t destroy your own place, I’ll help. I’m only a few more days of protesting from a very comfy retirement.

Christian Accidentally Watches News, Immediately Decides to Move to Nineveh

Christian Accidentally Watches News, Immediately Decides to Move to Nineveh

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesHe left his house to take a walk and clear his mind, but found that dogs were forming into packs in the streets, and all the trees were covered in murders of crows as far as his eyes could see.

US Adopts Mob Immunity Strategy

US Adopts Mob Immunity Strategy

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a statement, Joe Biden stated that he supports the rage that people are feeling. “Look, look, I felt that way once, I did. I hear you. I, I, I used a chain, a chain on CornPop, after telling him that I was going to, ‘Look, gonna come up there and yank you off.’ So, like I was saying, two stones with one bird here, we kill the mob and get justice for the virus.”

Smoke From Peaceful American Protest Fires Seen From Space

Smoke From Peaceful American Protest Fires Seen From Space

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesMost of the astronauts were pretty bummed to be stuck in space, as they heard that people at the protests were getting absolute bargains from local stores, no coupons required!

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Inexorable Depression, Death, God’s Plan, and Unfathomable Power: A Tale of Life

Inexorable Depression, Death, God’s Plan, and Unfathomable Power: A Tale of Life

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 9 minutesThe answer to the pop quiz is “depression,” you lunatics! That was basically a free 100, so if you failed, you should probably be bearsprayed.

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Fed Chairman JPow Accidentally Exchanges Entire US Economy for 3 Magic Beans

Fed Chairman JPow Accidentally Exchanges Entire US Economy for 3 Magic Beans

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutesOnce upon a time, there lived an orange-skinned man and his son, Jerome, or JPow, as his friends called him, on their small estate in the fabled land of Washington, DC. It was said to be a hive of scum and villainy, but the orange-skinned man, Mr. Donald, and his son, Jerome Powell, well, they made the best of it in trying times.

Uh-Oh, Biden: Historians Discover that CornPop Wouldn’t Have Voted for Joe, Wasn’t Black

Uh-Oh, Biden: Historians Discover that CornPop Wouldn’t Have Voted for Joe, Wasn’t Black

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCandidate Joe Biden’s odd story about getting into a chain-fight with bad-boy pool Kraken CornPop came under fire today.

Family Without Blood

Family Without Blood

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes“The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.” —C.S. Lewis, Weight of Glory

Walmart’s New Microsoft Robots Ask, “I See You’re Trying to Buy Groceries—Can I Help You GET VACCINATED?”

Walmart’s New Microsoft Robots Ask, “I See You’re Trying to Buy Groceries—Can I Help You GET VACCINATED?”

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes“Kathleen, our records indicate that you haven’t been vaccinated with the GATES’ HUMAN DEFENDER antivirus. To resolve this issue, please select “Ok, I’ll be vaccinated,” or “Cancel” to exit the store immediately. Remember, if it moves and has blood, it can be vaccinated!” the robot said cheerfully.

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Trump Promised to Pay Off $19 Trillion Debt in 8 Years, Only $26.4 Trillion Left to Go!

Trump Promised to Pay Off $19 Trillion Debt in 8 Years, Only $26.4 Trillion Left to Go!

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minutePresident Trump wooed conservatives with promises to pay off the $19 trillion national debt in only eight years, and good news—only $25.4 trillion left to go! It’s a darn sight better than that rotten Obummer did with his 8 years, that’s for sure!

YouTube Launches New Online Learning Platform, Offers Doctorate of Official Narrative

YouTube Launches New Online Learning Platform, Offers Doctorate of Official Narrative

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo far the institution only offers PhDs, including a Doctorate of Official Narrative and a Doctorate of Liberty Suppression. The courses can be completed in under 8 hours, but teach people how to quickly suss out what sort of videos should and shouldn’t be viewed by the public at large, how to ban people in online platforms, and how to be maximally condescending.

Science-Minded Skeptic Says Conspiracy Theories Are Nonsense, But He’s Pretty Interested in Conspiracy Hypotheses

Science-Minded Skeptic Says Conspiracy Theories Are Nonsense, But He’s Pretty Interested in Conspiracy Hypotheses

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLocal Republican city councilman Dan Boyds says that the hysteria over coronavirus really needs to settle down, especially since the virus hasn’t killed “an appreciable number of [his] own friends.” Boyds says that he thinks that the death toll is overstated. Last week a man got “gobbled by a shark, and it was COVID death,” he said, which he found “kinda suspicious, honestly.” When queried as to whether or not…

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Dem Bill to Give Teachers Tax-Exempt Military Pay as Frontline Soldiers in War Against Coronavirus

Dem Bill to Give Teachers Tax-Exempt Military Pay as Frontline Soldiers in War Against Coronavirus

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteRealizing that teachers in face-to-face educational settings will see casualty rates in the range of 99-100%, and sometimes higher in red states, which sadly embrace the deadly disease, the Democrats have launched into action to save lives.

Refusing to Abandon People: As Soon as Zion Travailed, She Brought Forth Her Sons

Refusing to Abandon People: As Soon as Zion Travailed, She Brought Forth Her Sons

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutesHave you ever been hurt or disgusted by someone? Have you wanted to leave them to drown in their own, willful mistakes?

Be steadfast in an age of impermanence.

Spiritual Math: The Sin Wave + Confession: The Most Difficult Act in the World

Spiritual Math: The Sin Wave + Confession: The Most Difficult Act in the World

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 6 minutesA sin wave has ups and downs, but it has no actual growth over time.

Is this your life?

Unwary Swimmer Killed in Front of Anti-lockdown Beachgoers by Man-Eating Great White Coronavirus

Unwary Swimmer Killed in Front of Anti-lockdown Beachgoers by Man-Eating Great White Coronavirus

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMayor Bill de Blasio had told citizens that any person caught swimming would be taken right out of the water, but it was too late for one foolish local resident.

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Opinion: It’s Easy To Spot A Mass Murderer. They Don’t Wear Masks.

Opinion: It’s Easy To Spot A Mass Murderer. They Don’t Wear Masks.

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesGo and look out your kitchen window. Have you done it? Did you see anyone on the street, walking in the fresh air and sunshine? Most were decent, law-abiding citizens, the type that you’d never invite into your home, obviously, but who you’d smile at from behind your N95, and hope that they understood.

But I bet you saw something else, too.

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Prudent Local Adulterer Demands Woman be Tested for COVID-19 Prior to Infidelity

Prudent Local Adulterer Demands Woman be Tested for COVID-19 Prior to Infidelity

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesBryan Franzel hopes that the lockdowns will end soon, as he thinks that the state shouldn’t be involved in anyone’s bedroom, and he’s really tired of the forced monogamy.

Girls kayaking String Lake, Wyoming. Peruvian woman and Chilean woman.
Something You’ve Wanted to Do—And It Makes You More Honest

Something You’ve Wanted to Do—And It Makes You More Honest

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesWould you like to improve your moral compass? There’s one thing that you might have avoided doing because you’ve felt that it was selfish

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Biden Promises to Inspect Coronavirus Fallout in All 13 States

Biden Promises to Inspect Coronavirus Fallout in All 13 States

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes“Listen up, bucko,” he angrily remarked at the camera. “Who are you and what are you staring at?” An aide was fetched to change his Zoom screen, which he had accidentally set to show his own face.

Fauci Warns: Stay Inside! If Sunlight & Fresh Air Kill Coronavirus, Just Imagine What They Might Do to You

Fauci Warns: Stay Inside! If Sunlight & Fresh Air Kill Coronavirus, Just Imagine What They Might Do to You

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesDr. Fauci warned America of the new, invisible enemy.

Review: Allen “Baby Jones” Jones

Review: Allen “Baby Jones” Jones

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutesWho is Allen “Baby Jones” Jones? The world’s most enviable man.

Christianity: For Best Outcome, Some Assembly Required

Christianity: For Best Outcome, Some Assembly Required

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 5 minutesWorship, service, and the purpose of assembling with your battle buddies are often all misunderstood.

So is assembling with the saints even worth it?

China Says Everything Back to Normal, But Tells Students “No More School Field Trips to Your Friendly, Local Bat Virology Lab”

China Says Everything Back to Normal, But Tells Students “No More School Field Trips to Your Friendly, Local Bat Virology Lab”

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesXi had to pause to take a call from the Secretary of Education and started screaming, “No, no! No school field trip to the friendly, local bat virology lab! No more of those! You stop them!”

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