Quotes from Dave Rubin

it's really in the business of keeping our eyes on the TV or our fingers clicking.

So if you're a progressive liberal, you see America and the West in general as an oppressive, tyrannical regime bent on capitalist destruction and oppression. Conservatives, who generally view the world through more of a religious lens, want to maintain the hard-fought freedoms we have (civilization) while protecting them from the whims of the day (barbarism). Meanwhile, libertarians see big government and the political machine as the biggest threat to personal freedom.

The less people seem to know about something, the more they pontificate on it.

Kling's point is that no matter what language we speak, we should use slow thinking, not fast thinking. Citing Daniel Kahneman's bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kling argues that we go wrong in political discourse when we hear a fact in isolation and jump to conclusions without considering its context. He encourages us to consider political problems slowly and logically instead—much like Elder did in our 2016 interview.

The lie behind the buzzword of 'diversity' could not be made more clear: if you don't conform, then you don't count as 'diverse,' no matter what your personal background.

Black people are 23.5 percent less likely to be shot by police, relative to whites. That's according to ex-Harvard scholar Roland Fryer (a black dude, I might add). He investigated racial profiling in his study: "An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force," published July 2017.

I have never understood why it is 'greed' to want to keep the money you've earned, but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

More white children live in poverty than any other race. Data from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) placed America's 13 million poor kids into the following categories: 4.2 million are Caucasian, 4 million are Latino, 3.6 million are African American, and 400,000 are Asian. Another 200,000 are American Indian.

Instead of focusing on what we can have for "free," or on who we can take from to fund trendy, idealistic projects like the Green New Deal, let's focus on keeping what we earn and cutting spending wherever possible.

if you're a sane person, progressives would need to consider your views like reasonable adults. But because they don't want to question their narrow, dogmatic worldview, they categorize you as extreme. This enables them to completely dismiss you without feeling bad. In fact, it makes them feel morally righteous. In their minds they've exterminated a deadly enemy.

Fortunately, this all happened in the alternative reality of Twitter, where such things are posted by anonymous accounts with anime avatars.

This isn't to say there aren't successful single parents out there, but let's face it: nothing trumps the nuclear family when it comes to offering the best possible starting point in life. This is a time-tested theory that has manifested itself in every part of the world throughout the ages.

This is because self-reliance is one of the things authoritarians try to take away first.

Deep down, I knew the importance of an intact family. I think we all do.

This article also flirted with libel by claiming I was "far right" (read: shorthand for Nazi) because I had the temerity to interview people with different views. Truly hateful, I know.

Do white supremacists exist? Yes. Do black, Jew, and Hispanic haters exist? Yes. But are these people fringe and irrelevant? Hell yeah. They have no institutional power. And that's exactly how it should be.

You're not gonna believe this, but generally speaking, good guys follow rules while bad guys don't.

delicious Chipotle burrito right now (with double chicken).

The trans issue is particularly interesting because it directly affects such an infinitesimally small fraction of the population. While that group of people is worthy of equality and protection, ask yourself why this topic is being relentlessly pushed so hard.

As the old saying goes, if you have integrity, nothing else matters. But if you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

This is a prime example of the left's soft bigotry of low expectations.

This knowledge is power and you should be empowered, especially when it comes to politicians who will say anything to get your vote.

Play the victim card to attain power, then, once you have it, use it to shield yourself from legitimate criticism.

progressives see racism, sexism, and discrimination everywhere, except where it actually exists.