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What ethnicity are the people he is encouraging? It doesn't take a genius to work out his likely motivations.

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So it's have kids in my office but the rest of you sacrifice to Molech. He is a fraud and not to be trusted. I do pray the matches he fostered do well.

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I hope that their seed falls on barren ground and the rest of us outside his office do well.

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I think this is not uncommon: elites publically arguing for abortion, divorce and every kind of perversion as good things for ordinary people while living their own lives like perfect Victorians.

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It is not uncommon for people to argue for all these perversions which weaken other ethnic groups, while opposing them in your own.

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It was a theme of Charles Murray's book Coming Apart. Elites were not preaching what they practice to the lower classes. That would still appear to apply to Schumer here as his staff is no doubt well educated and mostly upper class. He doesn't advocate for these policies for the lower classes. Although I think he would encourage non traditional marriage and children as well. He has for one of his daughters.

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A couple of things about this are way outside the norm. First, Schumer is convinced there is such a thing as a good life. It's objective, knowable, achievable. The second thing is simply not being embarrassed about knowing what's good for the people around you. This is in sharp constrast to the "you do you" or "follow your bliss" advice which has become the only polite opinion to hold about other people's lives.

I imagine Schumer's forwardness is closely related to the selection of potential staff. There are probably plenty of people whose vision of the good life differs so much from his own that it would make any attempt to give advice futile. But those people never get on his staff.

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His cognitive dissonance is amazing. Encouraging men and women to get married and have children, while supporting homosexual marriage and legalized infanticide.

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It would be interesting if someone asked him, how he squares his practice from his political stance. I’m sure he would say something like, “While I’m personal against it, it’s not up to me to tell others how to run their lives.” That’s what a lot of Roman Catholic Democrats say today. Unless of course you as a baker don’t want to bake a cake for a Soddomite wedding - then you must bake the cake or lose your business. It was also what a lot of Democrats said about slavery.

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Eh, if it were good politics for him to be against those things, he'd probably be against them. As politicians go, he's an extremely competent operator, but not exactly a visionary. Has he ever expressed a bold policy view on anything?

If he were a partner at a prestigious NYC law firm holding these views for the associates at his firm yet still voting Democrat, we'd think nothing of it. In fact, we should be shocked to learn that a secular Jewish lawyer in NYC votes Republican, regardless of how he leads his personal life.

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I bet he doesn't have such a rosy view when they are practiced in a group he cares about.

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Felicitous inconsistency.

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It's a very strange thing.

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This is good. People tell me I'm like a grandmother with this stuff. Don't care; it is not good for man to be alone.

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I have no words. Man times have changed.

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