[–] 2 points 8 months ago*

The American Spectator Foundation educates the public on new ideas, concepts, and policies that favor traditional American values, such as economic freedom, individual liberty, self-sufficiency, and limited government. To this end, the Foundation also trains and cultivates young writers for careers in journalism and serves as an outlet for a host of both young and established conservative writers and thinkers.

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Scott McKay at the Spectator.

The Spectacle Ep. 351: Maniac Transgender Killers and the Doctors Who Fuel Them: Taking hormonal drugs and antidepressants makes one more instable than they think.

Seems like an incredibly normal and cool guy.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Putin was already a dictator before the changes to term limits. When he was still "respecting" the term limits, he put his pet Medvedev in the presidential seat while he ruled Russia as prime-minister.

    However, not all dictatorships are tyrannies and so the article isn't about when Putin became a dictator, but rather about how tyrannical and totalitarian the Russian state has become in an attempt to cope with the discontent about the Ukrainian war. More oppressive + more invasive in peoples' lives, less tolerant of non sanctioned viewpoints, harsher punishments, ...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Hey you poke fun, but they're just trying to magick a little structural integrity into it, despite federal cutbacks. Remember the axiom: everything in the vessel was supplied by the lowest bidder.

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