Quote of the Day
The meme that the Left uses words as spells to produce useful outcomes has the most explanatory power.
They don’t care about meanings, they just want those outcomes.
Brotherhood @DiggingInTheDi1
Posted on X, January 21, 2026
I can believe that.
- From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs! *
- If there are no guns there will be no gun violence.
- Black lives matter.
- Believe women.
- Defund the police.
- Affordable housing. **
- Anything-phobic. **
- Bipartisan. **
- Climate change. **
- Common sense gun control. **
- Corporate greed. **
- Deincarceration. **
- Diversity. **
- Equity. **
- Existential threat to democracy. **
- …
- Reproductive freedom. **
- Security.
- Underrepresented. **
- Undocumented immigrant. **
- Workers’ rights. **
* From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs – Wikipedia
** The Progressive Left’s Glossary Of Terms, 2024 Edition – Scattered Shots
This dovetails nicely into the thread about many people being LLMs.
I’ve told many people on X, when they simply repeat the exact same wetf stupid mantra, that they seem to believe that if they keep repeating themselves, their words will act like some sort of magic spell (like Merlin’s ‘Spell of Making’ in the movie Excalibur)
Somalis built Minnesota.
Of course, this particular one comes under Goebbels and the Big Lie. If you tell a hugely obvious lie, people will pare it down in their minds and believe a smaller lie.
I cannot believe that you forgot the most puissant magic spell of them all: a sign proclaiming “gun free zone”.
That would be some serious mojo… if it ever worked.