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Ha, interesting you mentioned Sikhs. I lived in the UK for 27 years surrounded by Indian and Pakistani immigrants - two groups that don't really get along - but, the Sikhs were the kindest most charitable people I've ever met. If there was a local fire or a flood, they were the first on the scene with hot food to feed the victims and the rescue teams.

Then l moved back to Canada and Jagmeet Singh became leader of our Labour party. Although he is Sikh, the guy is a total idiot.

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But vibes are the coin of the realm. I work at a community college and one day when I was making my case to a colleague on some specific education topic, his response was, "what are you, a conservative?" No counter-argument, just vibes. These same people teach students, so is it any surprise that the students, too, value vibes over substance?

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Aug 14Liked by Peter Boghossian

Takes me back to 1970s Madison Wisconsin when students got the right to vote there. The Left took over city hall and made lots of useless declarations on international politics but the roads weren't kept up. It's a thing in the Great Lakes States because winter cracks pavement every year.

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Vibes being the coin of the realm is like a slow (fast?) suicide for a functioning economy.

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It just came out that Tim Walz describes a terror supporting imam in MN as "a great teacher." Imam posted pro terror tweets on Oct. 7. Info at Megyn Kelly channel on YT. Sounds like Harris was going to go with Josh Shapiro but then anti-Semitic wing of the Left made noise. They did not vett Walz.

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I saw that. What a disaster, but hey, he has great vibes!

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Btw, the real meaning of "Minnesota nice" is saying how wonderful you are and talking behind your back, using friends and relatives to triangulate. Born and raised in Wisconsin.

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