As Greg [Lukianoff, CEO of FIRE] has said, one of the great realizations in human history is that truth is shockingly difficult to know. And as many studies have told us, we are shockingly bad at being impartial arbiters of it. We engage in motivated reasoning, are quickly swayed by misinformation, and build suspicion or credulity based on affinity groups faster than we do on objective facts. Macron’s statement that there must be “handling of information” in a “public order” thrives in the passive voice but fails as soon as you decide who handles the information. That’s the naive part of Macron’s framework: he articulates a perfect system of speech regulation, as long as you never insert a human into it.

But we don’t live in hypotheticals, and in the real world, tolerating untruth is the cost of a real commitment to truth. Learned Hand summarized it best when he said that “the spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.” France needs a model of free speech more like that. It needs a model that tolerates insults, that draws …

“Since wealth is the only thing that can cure poverty, you might think that the left would be as obsessed with the creation of wealth as they are with the redistribution of wealth. But you would be wrong.”

— Thomas Sowell…

Aaron Siri just revealed the real reason why New York launched a massive legal attack on unvaccinated Amish communities. “These kids are healthy.” “They don’t suffer from any of the chronic diseases that plague American children.” “If this was about health, New York State should be looking at these kids as models and asking, why are they healthier?” “Why do these… Amish children not suffer from the chronic health conditions that are plaguing over 40% [of children] according to the CDC?” “Some data reflects even higher.” “This is up from under 10% of kids having a chronic health condition in America in the early ’80s.” “What’s changed?” “Maybe they should take a look at this community instead of trying to force upon them the same type of lifestyle that… has resulted in that increase.”

See also these posts about the Amish being targeted by New York and Pennsylvania, by Sayer Ji:

https://x.com/sayerjigmi/status/2094469593632801185

https://x.com/RealLindellTV/status/2095606442539823189

https://x.com/sayerjigmi/status/2094271345462853820

https://x.com/sayerjigmi/status/2093053816992108594

https://x.com/sayerjigmi/status/2098448766114128287

https://x.com/sayerjigmi/status/2093134744061898830

All of this is concerning to me.

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Ji’s latest: “An Open Letter to President Trump: The Missing Spray Log: To the President of the United States, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Administrator of the EPA, and the Director of the CDC.”

[T]he Amish are a distinctive natural comparison population for pediatric health research, and the federal government has treated them as one for decades …

Zuby: “Believing that the government deeply cares about you is the biggest conspiracy theory going :)”…

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