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.
- Gun free zone.
- 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.
One of my favorite cartoons shows a wolf, licking its chops. He’s surrounded by piles of bones, and is leaning against a sign saying “wolf free zone”.
I can’t believe it either.
Fixed.
Thank you.
“Big Lie,” attributed to Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propagandist. He stated that if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
The left uses this exact method. But they have a twist they like to pull.
Vox Day pointed out that the first words out of their mouth is always a lie. And then they make you argue over the lie. While they equivocate, pretend, and double down on the lie.
Our problem is we magically enter the “word spell” by excepting their first premise. Instead of just calling it a lie. And saying there is no such premise.
My personal favorite is “assault weapon”. And shortly after them using that term we find ourselves repeating it for them.
When there never was such a thing. Or the fact that almost everything can be one should a human mind desire it, matters little.
They know it’s a lie. We know it’s a lie. They know, we know it’s a lie. And we know, they know, we know it’s a lie.
But here we all are using the term and arguing over this or that feature of the “assault weapon” lie.
Instead of just pointing out to the user what an ignorant and meaning less buzz word it is.
Then pointing out only a communist apparatchik, or an elitist Karen would use the term.
Our biggest problem is we don’t think we’re in a war. When we have been in one for 75 years or better.
With people dying and life’s being destroyed daily.