Stock Up Now for Galt Month By Overgrown Hobbit

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Stock Up Now for Galt Month By Overgrown Hobbit

June is supposed to be Pride month. I was told I’d need to apply for a religious exemption to avoid being mandated to celebrate it.  I shouldn’t be suprised: Corporate is also keen on Greed, Gluttony, and Wrath year-round.

It’s tragic. It’s horrifying that virtues like self-mastery, charity, or humility are opaque to these perverted aristos. Who do we little people think we are, wanting honesty or dignity? It’s “See deer, point horse, peon.” We’re supposed to know our place as demoralized consuming/producing mules in their economic fiefdoms. Up is down, down is up, cruelty is kind, and decency is perverted: All the better to enslave you with, my dear.

So let’s not. And not tell them we did.

I know loads of us are already trying to follow the advice of Mr. Niemeir here. But it’s tricky, and hard to disentangle oneself completely, all the time. https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Give-Money-People-Hate-ebook/dp/B087C4V1GM

Maybe it’ll be easier for just one month, eh?

I ran across a suggestion a commenter I know posted over at Rod Dreher’s blog:

This year, let’s kick off a general economic strike on June 1st.   Don’t buy anything not absolutely necessary. Buy your groceries: That’s it. Whatever you can buy from farm stands with cash, do that. Planning a major purchase? Punt it to July. We’ll be washing dishes by hand for thirty days. Make do with clothes, shoes, what have you, until after June 30th. Find ways to avoid all but your most essential purchases.

I think a sudden drop of 10 – 15% in expected earnings could really drive the point home, especially since June is the end of the quarter. I’m told these sociopathic pool noodles live and die by their earnings reports.

If enough of us #GoGaltJune maybe the oligarchs will get it through their thick heads to just quit with the whole patronizing proselytizing Pride malarky* already and leave us alone. Leave our kids alone.

Me, I’m off to fund the The Wise of Heart

https://www.fundmycomic.com/campaign/113/the-wise-of-heart

and Draco Alchemicus https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rachelfultonbrown/draco-alchemicus before May 31st.

How ’bout you?

Godspeed.

*This is Sarah. I’m not overgrown hobbit, the author of the guest post above. And I didn’t originally have a problem with Pride parades. Look, in most cities it was rather dorky people shouting “We exist and are allowed to.” That’s …. whatever.
HOWEVER the “Pride month” and “Mandatory celebration” have stepped on my LAST NERVE. People are what they are, and being gay is not the worst thing, but why the heck would we “celebrate” it for a whole month? Even motherhood is celebrated ONE DAY a year. And corporate-mandated celebration? No. I realize they want a fascist state, but just no. These are my middle fingers. I endorse this here hobbit’s suggestion. – SAH*

235 thoughts on “Stock Up Now for Galt Month By Overgrown Hobbit”

    1. Interesting. In my Eastern Iowa neck of the woods, I’ve always seen that transliterated as pert-near.

      And yes, habits change when shopping happens on Saturday, when we go into town.

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    2. Or the way us Alaska Sourdoughs have been doing. One moose and two or three caribou pretty much takes care of a family of four’s annual meat needs, speaking from personal experience.

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  2. As far as Gay Pride Parades go, I’ve heard that many such parades destroy any idea that “Gays are people just like you”.

    IE They show gays as a bunch of Nut-Cases that you wouldn’t invite into your homes. Especially, some of the “exhibits” are extremely insulting to religious people.

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        1. They probably have the same feeling of disgust I, as a woman, have for pink pussy hat “Women’s Marches”.

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    2. They’re also projecting an impression that all gays have an unhealthy interest in young children. I’m sure it’s really just a small percentage of deviants, similar to the percentage in non-gays. It’s just that more of the deviants are ‘activists’.
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      Only idiots believe they know how other people should live their lives. The stupider they are, the more blindly they believe it.

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      2. I saw, live, one gay comic/comedian commenting on that and using a common meme of sorts (also erroneous, but the humor aspect so…) “No, we’re just not that catholic.”

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    3. They didn’t, back in the nineties, in small town Colorado Springs (back then.) No, we didn’t go out of our way, but we stumbled on them a few times, and it was a bunch of geeks waving flags.
      It has changed, yes.

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      1. It went from people demanding to be left alone to live their lives the way they wanted, to a small part of that group of people demanding that people “clap for Stalin” and never stop. This is why even avowed leftists like J.K. Rowling are being treated as members of the Waffen-SS, because they dare say that they won’t clap.

        I don’t care what consenting adults do to themselves or with each other, provided they are not physically harming others, but I absolutely object to involving children, and I absolutely object to people imposing their lifestyle preferences onto others.

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      2. Ah, yes, the bygone good old days when this activism was preaching and promoting tolerance, not practicing and promoting intolerance (of dissent from their catechism).

        Sigh.

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    4. Must be a city thing.

      Teh gheys exist in Speck, population middlin’ to not much. The dudes are dudes that do dude things, and their private lives are their own, thank’ee very much. They don’t flaunt it, nor do they need to. Private lives be private, and in public they are just… dudes.

      The gals are, by and large, the same.

      That’s not to say I’ve not met the flamingly flaunting flamingos. I have. Both sexes. They’re annoying, mostly. They’re the sort of people that, were they straight, I’d avoid them for largely the same reasons.

      Namely narcissicsm, attention seeking, and inability (or rather, unwillingness) to keep their noses out over anyone else’s business. Most of them, anyway. I suppose, now I think on it, there are a few bright sparklers that aren’t flawed that way.

      But by and large, the ones that want to shove it in your face are just out and out wrong. As in, head-wise.

      A goodly amount of humility, and a heavy dollop of tending to one’s own patch, would do the lot of them an immense amount of good.

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      1. Well, I’m talking about the Kooks in the Parades (likely in Big Cities) but I suspect that even in the Big Cities the Gays don’t act/dress that way in their everyday lives.

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    6. You know, I’m a pretty dyed-in-the-wool hetero, who doesn’t mind a little porn now and then; but that doesn’t mean I’d be dressing up as a nut and having sex in the streets. How’s Gordon Lightfoot put it? “In a room where you do what you don’t confess.” NOT in the Town Square!

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    7. If you really want to see what the news media do NOT show you about all the pride parades and such in San Franciso, visit http://www.zombietime.com/.
      (warning– not work or family friendly)
      You of course will soon realize why all the images they show in the papers and tv news are of happy rainbow clad people instead.

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  3. I am preparing to be bombarded by rainbows at my employer for the next month, although working from home means that I can duck some of it at least. I have homosexual folks very close to me, in my own family, and I love them unconditionally. And yes, they should have equal rights before the law and civil unions (though on a religious basis I oppose gay “marriage,” I think there should be a legal civil equivalent). If that’s all these organizations were asking for, I’d be OK with it. But now I MUST approve transgenderism and all manner of other things I frankly consider perversions, or else if I speak out I seriously risk losing my job just for that. They’ve just pushed and pushed and pushed too far and now we need to shove back hard. So I think this is a good idea.

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    1. I’ve worked in several $BIGCORPs which have employee resource groups or similar. Not work related, but no skin off my nose. I will not comply with pronoun stuff, though. You will not compel my speech nor make me affirm falsehoods.

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    3. They already have all that.

      They even had exactly the same right to marry as straight people did, to wit: “You may marry any one adult human being of the opposite sex who is willing to marry you, able to understand and consent to marriage, and is free of any other bonds that would prevent marriage to you.”

      The fact that they wanted the special privilege to “marry whomever they loved” – regardless of whether that person was of age, willing, able, free, alive, or even a person at all – doesn’t matter to them.

      Accepting the premise that gays didn’t have the same “right to marry” as non-gays is why people are having such trouble objecting to any of the follow-on perversions that we’re seeing now.

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      1. My problem with the, “Love is Love,” rainbow flag (up at the church camp we just left) is the authors don’t mean “love,” (as in a mother’s love for her child or the love of friend for friend), they mean, “Sex is Sex,” or how you do it is irrelevant.
        Even if they meant romantic love, I’d aim them straight at, “Death On the Nile,” for a fictional cautionary tale about, “love.”

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        1. Certainly no-fault divorce did a lot more to destroy people’s belief in the sanctity of marriage than legalizing same-sex marriage ever did.

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    4. Viewed rationally, any union not performed and sanctified by a priest (or other-religion equivalent) is by definition a “civil union”; by a JP at City Hall, for instance. Marriage is traditionally a religious ceremony, whining, screaming activists notwithstanding.

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      1. Don’t remind the idiots.

        I was expecting them to attempt to force churches to “marry gays”. :mad:

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        1. Wouldn’t surprise me if they tried. And, given some current “churches”, it wouldn’t surprise me if they succeeded. That said, I’d go further. The word “marriage” has no business on any license, permit, or whatever issued by any government; it should be reserved for its initial meaning. The most government should issue is a formal, binding contract by the parties involved that they accept mutual responsibility for their partnership, including financial, and agree to both support any offspring until said offspring reach maturity regardless of the then-current state of the partnership. Nothing would actually change in practice, but the government would be out of the “permitting marriage” business, something it should never have been in, and, since all such unions would be “civil unions”, the stated cause for complaint by the whining activists would evaporate. Yeah, they’d find something else, but they would anyway.

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          1. Actually, they did try. About the only reason they didn’t succeed was the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the rulings based on it. That’s why they want to repeal it.

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            1. Well, since they want to repeal the Constitution (or at minimum, the Bill of Rights) that should surprise no one. What’s one more little freedom? :-(

              Of course, they fail to realize (unintended consequences and all) that if they ever did manage to dump the Constitution they would lack even the shred of legitimacy they have now, and they’re outnumbered. What could possibly go wrong?

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          2. Considering many churches (and I do use that term extremely loosely for those heretical places that assume their place as the Bride of Christ) do gay marriages, I think they will wait for a year and then try to force pædophilic marriages on a more biblically based church.

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      2. There has, in fact, been a lot of variety about the ceremony. Do the Chinese not get married because the essence of it is listing the bride in her husband’s family’s rolls?

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        1. There’s been an enormous variety regarding what constitutes “marriage” over the past few millennia all over the world; my comments were regarding marriage WRT “usual” Judeo-Christian practice, which has been the norm in the West.

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  4. Hmm, how to continue supporting the Sunday book promotions here at ATH during June? I like supporting the authors who hang out here and Sarah for hosting.

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  5. Also, why is it the place of my employer to douse me in rainbow-covered propaganda? What business is it of theirs? My particular company has gone head-over-heels into the ESG swamp, they live by it and praise themselves for it and make it a huge part of their publicity.

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    3. I keep trying to figure out the point of ESG – what the bug institutional investors get out of it.

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    4. I keep tripping over ESG as I was more aware of and concerned with ESD (Electro-Static Discharge) which could/can damage some electronics. Electro-Static Gis…. oh hell no!

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  6. If you don’t play their games, they don’t get to make the rules.
    If the only way to show them their own hate, is not to play, don’t play.
    If that means a little discomfort for a month or two, so be it.
    If you live in that world, be a Stainless Steel rat, expose their hate for all the world to see.

    On a side note, I wonder how many of these Executives pushing this evil, are on Epstein’s list?

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        1. Ooh, I like that! That’s almost as good as “The Schiffhead”, “Jerry the NoNads” and “MaligNancy”. ;-)

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          1. I sort of waffle between ‘MaligNancy’ and ‘NecroNancy’. :-D
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            When Eric Swalwell farted on camera, it was the most intelligent thing heard from a Democrat all day.

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            2. Also good, but MaligNancy has the advantage of being an actual word, one which pretty well describes all leftists.

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          3. Let us not forget the travesty that Granny-Killer Cuomo got in trouble for making a few women ‘feel uncomfortable’ rather than for dictatorial tyranny and mass murder.

            But of course the Leftroids can’t ever admit they were wrong to anoint Killer Cuomo as The COVID Hero for taking ‘decisive actions’ — which contributed to making New York’s COVID death rate the worst in the U.S. Or to demonize Ron DeSantis for his ‘reckless actions’ that gave Florida one of the lowest death rates despite having the most ‘at-risk’ old folks.

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            1. Apparently Trump is now praising Cuomo’s handling of covid because he’s after DeSantis. If true, it’s a bad look.

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              1. Eh. I don’t trust any of this. He speaks off the cuff, and they take quotes out of context. This is the new “Good people on both sides.”
                If this is what the DeSantis campaign has? they can hike.

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                1. Instapundit has the tweet (posted by Ed Driscoll), and he’s not praising Cuomo’s handling. His exact words were “Why do they say that DeSanctus [sic] did a good job? New York had fewer deaths!” What he’s saying is that as bad as Cuomo’s handling was, DeSantis’s handling (Trump claims) was worse.

                  Now, I like DeSantis much better than Trump, and so far Trump’s attacks on DeSantis are succeeding only in lowering my opinion of Trump, not of DeSantis. But it is indeed important to get the accurate quote, and understand things in context. And in context, Trump is not praising Cuomo. Rather the opposite: his tweet has, as a baseline assumption, that everyone knows Cuomo did a bad job.

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                  1. I want you to understand it’s perfectly natural for bookish people to support DeSantis.
                    But where personality is required, he’s wet kleenex. And he’s a career politician. For that reason alone I and a vast majority of Americans will never trust him.
                    Now all of this is academic, because Biden will win wtih 400000 votes. But I fail to see the appeal of De Santis who is known as “who?” to most Americans.
                    Now do I want Trump? Not particularly. But I didn’t the first time, and he was okay.
                    However he has a ton more support on the ground.
                    And I don’t know the numbers for Florida. I do know the hype. That’s something else.
                    I also wish Trump would leave the Covidiocy alone.

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                    1. Aw, come on, Biden* will get 400 million votes next year, because the doddering zombie is just that awesome. Of course the dead will turn out in droves to vote for one of their own!
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                      Grandpa voted Republican until the day he died — but he’s been voting Democrat ever since.

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                    3. I’m sorry, what? He’s a career politician, and that alone is enough to not trust him, and ignore his record? His being a career politician is why he has a record of accomplishments, and his record of accomplishments so far is exactly why he’s needed on the national stage: to help stand up to wokery in more than just one state.

                      Sure, I can get why people are sick of the milquetoast “let’s lose slower” GOP establishment, What about DeSantis’s record makes you think he’s going to be another “let’s lose slower” type?

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                    5. I should say, for the record, that while I’ll vote for DeSantis in the primaries because I like him better than Trump, I’d crawl over broken glass to vote for either Trump or DeSantis in the general.

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  7. Evidence is that the gay rights crowd is possessed by an all-consuming and insatiable hunger for acceptance and approval. Their activity must not only be tolerated, but enthusiastically embraced and celebrated. If you do not approve, they consider you a hater who must be punished or destroyed.
    As for myself, I follow another banner and will never pledge my allegiance to the rainbow flag.

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  8. Hum. Thinking about it, my needs aren’t great or many and my gratifications are postponeable.

    With just a few minutes forethought I can head to town today and, maybe, tomorrow & stock up on all I need to be quite comfortable through a month w/o shopping.

    I just might give it a try.

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  10. I admit to some mixed feelings, for selfish reasons. I have a book release in early June, and I’d like to support people I like at [event]. The rest I can do, and gladly.

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  11. Maybe TPTB will notice, and maybe they won’t. Ace has a post up about Bud Light, and it paraphrases the “ESG promoters” (i.e. the people in the business world attempting to push compliance with ESG-focused business practices instead of ones that focus on shareholders and the bottom line) as saying that everything will work out with the stock values by Labor Day. A boycott that lasts a month -by necessity when aimed at a specific month – might not last long enough to generate a real sense of concern among TPTB.

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  12. Aside from a few necessary purchases I can’t make now but will have to soon, I could probably stand to do this. I’ll be shopping my local farm store, grocery store, etc., as I always do, unless they’re festooned with rainbows. Which they weren’t, last year.

    I do not care if you identify as gay, bi, or trans. I don’t want to know your sexual orientation unless it is directly relevant to me. If you want to pretend to be a woman, that’s a little stickier, because I definitely do not want you in my public women’s spaces, especially bathrooms/dressing rooms. But if you’re going to shove it in my face and demand that I affirm your self-perception . . . NO. Absolutely not. Also, when did we become a nation that celebrates Pride? Our founding fathers built a nation on humility, respect, and hard work, none of which are civic virtues anymore, apparently.

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    1. Why should I “celebrate” that anyone makes their sexual preferences the center of their identity? How boring and sad. If it is from mental illness, then the person needs help, not “affirmation and allieship.” If someone’s appetite is the sum total of his existence, be that appetite for food, for collecting something, or recreational fornication, then he needs to talk with a counselor, or perhaps a shrink. We are more than our hungers, or should be.

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      1. I think many make their preferences the center because there isn’t anything else. I’m pretty sure that those who “ally” with those with preferences don’t have anything else either, I agree it’s very sad. I’m afraid it’s going to end badly,

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        1. In the struggle session that tore our SCA household apart, one couple (members of a very progressive denomination) were taking a good deal of pride in declaring they were “allies,” of the gay/trans movement. They seemed to be getting pleasure from the idea of marching beside the Great Force of History.
          I saw the man last year. He had voluntarily exiled them from the old household,and discovered they weren’t welcome at the new one. Meanwhile, he had also discovered that his heroic stand with the Forces of Progress had not improved his political position within the SCA and his ambition to achieve the highest position of power wasn’t going to happen. So it was all for nothing.
          I feel rather sorry for him.

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      2. I agree 100% – I have some friends who have basically become that one aspect of their identity, and I find it really sad, because they used to be so much more than just their sexual identity. It is not healthy at all.

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      4. I keep thinking of Freida from Peanuts, always talking about her, “naturally curly hair.”

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      5. ” he needs to talk with a counselor, or perhaps a shrink”
        no, bad idea — nearly all of those, in the social “sciences,” are hard leftists who will affirm the appetite rather than actually treat the illness.

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        1. And also, if they disapprove of anything you tell them about yourself, are just likely to do things like contact your employer or file a “red-flag” report. Anonymously, no matter what the 6th A says about “confronting your accuser”.

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    3. One local store (of a regional chain) put up some banner that wasn’t exactly BLM in 2020 or so… and got LOTS of complaints that basically asked “Why are you surrendering to domestic terrorists?” It did not last very long. Maybe a whole month. Not a Summer.

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  13. The Reader enthusiastically supports this notion! He will make an exception for material from this group’s writers – gotta keep his habit fed.

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  14. It’s almost as though the left actually loathe and despise themselves and want everyone to hate them. I’ve always been a whatever floats your boat person, just don’t try to get me, or my children, involved. Now, I’m about ready to give them what they seem to want so much. Stupid, so very, very stupid.

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    1. As with racism, it appears that the demand for homophobia exceeds the supply. If it’s true that they actually loathe and despise themselves, then it would explain why they both demand that others validate and approve them, and why no matter how much they get, it will never be enough. Also, if they imagine that normal people hate them, it gives than excuse to hate back more and worse, so that they become objectively more aggressor than victim. I don’t hate homosexuals as much as I pity them. That may be the greater insult.

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      1. Many (most?) of the activists are malignant narcissists and psychopaths. They don’t really care about “the cause,” they just want power and destruction.

        There’s been “studies” so it must be true, though one could have done better by reading some history.

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  15. Fargo’s gay pride parade got moved across the river to Moorhead this year because was North Dakota is just too hatey now that the legislature has endangered their lives by…not allowing a government entity (including schools): to require or prohibit a use of preferred pronouns, to adopt a policy of a student’s transgender status without consulting with the student’s parents/guardians, withhold a student’s transgender identity from parents/guardians, allow students to use bathrooms that don’t coincide with their biological status, or create a policy regarding a student’s use of alternative bathroom facilities without consulting with the student’s parents/guardians. Oh, and public libraries can’t have sexually explicit material in their children’s sections.

    Oh my, the hatey mchateyness of the state legislature for having similar values to the citizens of the state. Whatever will we do?

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  16. And when Pride Month end we go directly to Sloth Month. July’s too hot to do much more than laze around. As for the rest? November is Gluttony Month, December is Greed Month, February is Lust Month, and May (the month in which the death of Sainted George Floyd is celebrated with riots) is wrath Month.

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    3. I nominate October for Wrath Month during election years because the constant barrage of political ads is extremely wrath inducing.

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      1. Logically, and with a bow to our nation’s history, Wrath Month should be April, in memory of the opening of the Revolutionary War with the Battle of Lexington and Concord, 19 April 1775.

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    3. Again, I’m on the road for unavoidable reasons for much of June, so I’m not doing this. But I thought it was worth letting Overgrown Hobbit have her say. (I’m on the road half of each month till October. SO EXHAUSTING

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  18. I have said it before and I will say it again.

    ‘I don’t have to agree with the choices you make as an adult’.
    ‘I don’t have to support the choices you make as an adult’.
    ‘I just have to agree that you as an adult has the right to make that choice’.

    When you start forcing other people to agree with, or support your choices, that is fascism.
    Also, all these special laws they are trying to pass, that was already decided by the founding fathers when they included the word ‘CREED” because all these groups are certainly a creed by every definition of the word. Now stop your childish temper tantrums and shut the hell up, before we send you to your rooms without supper.

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  19. “I want to do X.”
    “OK.”
    “You think X is wrong.”
    “Yes?”
    “You want to control me!”
    “Uh. No. You’re free to do what you want.”
    “But you think X is wrong!”
    “Yes.”
    “But I want to do X!”
    “You are free to do it.”
    “But I want you to say that X is good!”
    “… no?”
    “Why do you hate me?”

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  20. Let’s try to avoid PetCo if we can. They just sent me a SPAM E-mail about everything they’re doing to ‘support Pride Month’.

    All I buy there is cat litter, and I’ve got more than a month’s supply.

    Tomorrow I’m going to pick up more than my usual week’s supply of groceries.

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    1. The wife swore them off after a 10 cent plastic bag charge, for the earth, you know. They also push their app heavily, which I take as a negative signal for the condition of the business.
      But I’ve not seen more PRIDE! stuff than rainbow-themed cat costumes, and I figure anybody dumb enough to wrangle a cat into any costume deserves what’s coming to ’em.

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    2. No matter how tempting, do not return their used product. Law Enforcement rarely has a sense of humor for scat-related expression.

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  21. I’d be OK with absolutely nothing but grocery essentials for the month of June. I’m sick to death of Afro-American month, of Women’s Month (since I get a double walloping of Florence Price as an Afro-American female composer of note throughout both of those months on the classical station that is my aural wallpaper). I’m already in a grouchy mood going into June (AKA Pride Month).
    My daughter and I noted a small half-aisle in the ‘seasonal merch’ of our local HEB grocery, filled with “Pride” rainbow items. We are betting that just about all of it will be on the marked-down shelves in three weeks.

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    1. And I’m sick and tired of people appropriating a Judeo-Christian symbol for their own twisted use. Which may explain why I bought a rainbow skein of “Uneek,” worsted yarn to make a cowl with. Take m that, “pride”!

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  22. Pride goes before destruction,
    And a haughty spirit before a fall.

    They won’t notice or care; but I’m in.

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    1. The local Farmers’ Markets open this week. Alas, you do have to get up early and get there by Yaaawwwwwnnnn in the morning for the best selection.

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  24. Gay Pride!

    Because a Deadly Sin is still a Deadly Sin even when sorted by category..??

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        1. The joke goes that after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, one got a sin named after it. Whatever went on in Gomorrah was apparently too bad to remember.

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        2. This is Proverbs 16:18 looking at the Authorized version (AKA the King James) it has

          Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

          Looks like someone munged the verse together long ago and that variant snuck into the language and stuck. It is astounding how many phrases come from either the KJV Bible or Shakespeare’s plays, both at roughly the same time…

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            1. And much of the KJV/Authorized version leans heavily on the MUCH earlier Wycliffe translation of the 14th century (Yes 1300’s). Mr. Wycliffe managed to die of natural causes (a stroke we think), but at a later point his heresy to translate from the Vulgate to the common vernacular earned him posthumous removal from consecrated ground, burning and then scattering of ashes. The number of nonces (coined single use words) that Shakespeare created that then moved into common use is HUGE. I saw a Youtube on it a week or so but darned if I can find the fool thing.

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  25. Alas, the resulting spike the following month, as degerred purchases overlapped with routine, would just be interpreted as success/approval.

    Bud Light brand is currently hosed, because folks quit it and went elsewhere. Note BL still doesn’t get it.

    Many folks quit buying US cars and switched to imports. It took more than a decade for the “Big Three” (remember them?) to get their acts together and stop making total junk, assuming folks would buy whatever was sold. Some could credibly argue they never really changed attitude, they got bought out and fixed, sort-of.

    At some point, you have to decide “are those folks rational?” If the answer is “no”, one cannot expect rational responses to your rational challenges.

    Thus the tendency of those who roll left to respond to criticism or challenge by rolling harder. Left.

    Note that in the source example, the folks who “went Galt” did so -permanently- with the oath-bound intent to destroy the rest. There was no negotiation. No warnings. No evangelism. No “until you…” It wasn’t at all “strike” in the sense of a negotiated yet coerced change. It was a straight up assassination by taking the essential mind folks off the grid. The opponents would cease to be.

    Thus “strike” in the Marxist sense of “destroy” not “change”.

    Coming up with a competing “month of virtue signal” is highly unlikely to change anything. It’s fairly easy to refrain for a month. It’s much, much harder to pick a target, probably one formerly cherished, and destroy it.

    Because you might have noticed that businesses that go woke-irrational are not responding rationally anymore. If you expect then to make your preferred rational choice, in the absence of evedence of such thinking, that is not evidence of rational thinking.

    If you “go Galt” you have to destroy, and intend such. It’s an active process. You work at it being a permanent change. You have -quit-, versus striking for a while.

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    1. Many folks quit buying US cars and switched to imports.

      Pa got the odd comment on that when he bought a (used) ’74 VW Bug. Previous vehicle was a Chevy Vega (the SECOND time he had to fix it, in the dark (electrical failure…), in the rain, it was DONE). “Funny, I stopped buying ‘American’ cars and I suddenly stopped have to fix my car all the time.” Years later he did try a Thunderbird (which was silver…) and I thought it an ergonomic disaster. The song “Silver Thunderbird” was popular just then and I argued with it. The manual-almost-everything Mazda pickup was less of a pain to drive.

      Now, I did once buy a vehicle made in the USA (well, allegedly, it was California, so…) and the nameplate was… TOYOTA.

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        1. My Nissan Frontier was made in Spring Hill TN, and was one of the first ones, since they had prominent stickers saying it was made there.

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      2. So much this.

        When I first started working at the powerplant, the Kia Sephia I was driving got keyed several times by my ‘Brothers’ who were all driving their Chevy, Dodge, and Ford big iron. When I raised an objection, I was told that I shouldn’t be driving “that foreign POS.” When I asked which was the foreign vehicle, the Toyota built in a UAW-friendly plant in Tennessee or the Ford built in a Maquiladora plant in Matamoros, Mexico, I think it gave them pause to think. At least the keying stopped.

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          1. This shit is why I’m self employed. Somebody keyed my ride? At WORK?! I’d be in jail. Or the hospital and then jail, possibly.

            Self employment is better than suffering fools.

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          2. Not going to go ape on the vehicles of 20 guys if a couple of them took their displeasure with my transportation choice to the level of vandalism. One could suspect that the responder was (one of) the perpetrator(s), but suspicion is not proof. Also, it was just a car, and already not in the greatest of shape thanks to previous wear and tear.

            When I first started working at the powerplant, the Kia Sephia I was driving got keyed several times by my ‘Brothers’ who were all driving their Chevy, Dodge, and Ford big iron. When I raised an objection, I was told that I shouldn’t be driving “that foreign POS.” When I asked which was the foreign vehicle, the Toyota built in a UAW-friendly plant in Tennessee or the Ford built in a Maquiladora plant in Matamoros, Mexico, I think it gave them pause to think. At least the keying stopped.

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          3. Set an empty container of powdered abrasive at the base of the windshield, and traces near the hood latch.

            Empty sugar bag works too, combined with an open fuel door.

            And we haven’t even gotten to the actual prank.

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        2. I always found that amusing. I had a 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX Turbo–great car, fast as hell for the ’90s. I couldn’t park that car in a “NO IMPORTS ALLOWED” parking lot…but I could buy a mechanically-identical 1990 Eagle Talon TSi AWD, assembled right next to that Mitsubishi at Diamond-Star Motors in Normal, Illinois, and nobody would bat an eye if I parked it there.

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          1. Oh man. Those cars were fun, when they ran. Granted my memories are from 2005 or so, and the turbo on that ’93 (I think) had plenty of issues by then.

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            1. I had mine for five years, no issues with the turbo but by the time I got rid of it I’d put about 95,000 miles on it. The transmission was graunchy and the synchros were starting to go in second and third, the driver’s seat was breaking, and it was picking up a wobble in one or two of the rotors. In the performance doldrums of 1990-94, though, 0-60 in 6.6 seconds and 140+ mph flat-out for a pretty low price, plus a simple foolproof AWD system that gripped like a barnacle, was pretty awesome.

              Funny thing is, I got rid of it for a brand-new Dodge Ram 1500 4×2 pickup. It felt like driving a house on wheels after that little Eclipse. Also, my “import” Eclipse was assembled in Illinois, my “all-Amurrican” Ram was straight outta Mexico.

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        2. Similarly with Honda, They have major assembly plants in Ohio, Alabama and Canada. Yes I know Canada is NOT part of the US the 1812 war stuff failed horribly although it is on the North American continent and part of the tariff free trade agreements. I suspect like Toyota manufacturing in Japan got to expensive for Honda (and similar for VW and BMW from Germany), and shipping from Japan to the US adds a lot to the price. My first Honda (a 1984 Accord sedan) was one of the first generation off the Marysville Ohio line. I think they actually manufactured right hand drive accords for return to Japan starting in the ’90s.

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            3. I suspect in the west of Canada that proportion (especially in Alberta and British Columbia) is quite high :-) .

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        3. Not quite. Someone in Japanese marketing thought it was a good idea to make the middle seats in their latest minivan non removable and lowered the height of the rear hatch opening 1.5 inches to give it a more ‘swept’ look. Makes it useless as a general purpose minivan.

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    2. You’re seeing the same thing with the comic book and entertainment industries right now.

      Marvel and DC can’t give comic books away, outside of the hard-core collector markets that pick up the #1 issues for investment purposes. Most comic book stores survive these days on gaming supplies (which is being destroyed by DEI/ESG efforts in the big game companies like Hasbro/WoTC and Paizo), adult (not those kind, mostly) toys (which are being oversold and overmarketed to people), and manga.

      Which is having controversies because of several translation and distribution issues (one of the most relevant ones to this post is that a translator, despite multiple comments and notes from the mangaka who created it, turned a “good friendship” between two cross-dressing boys into an “egg-cracking romantic” story).

      TV-assuming you don’t decide to suck-start a GAU-8/A trying to watch “network TV” (with artificial demographic pushes, but all-black!), almost all the new content coming out for the streaming services is English/European or South Koren. Because Hollywood and its allies in Canada just plain suck in creating right now.

      And movies! I’m having a hard time finding even a single summer “tentpole” movie without an actor who should be retired right now. And even Tom Cruise had made it clear that the next two Mission Impossible movies are his last ones. There isn’t anybody that is even being floated as a young tentpole movie actor right now. And none of the actresses that they’ve tried to make a tentpole star has worked out.

      Books-I can’t think of any new books that made me happy to read them. I tried out a new series on sale, and after six books, I’m going “I can do this in four books and a lot less wangsty than this guy who…oh, he’s bragging that he’s a friend with John Scazi. Of course.” Even Baen Books has been more miss than hit lately.

      It’s a terrible terrible repeat of the 1970’s. So, all I can do is this-save money, go Galt-lite, stay out of trouble, get a job again, stay healthy, and write faster.

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      1. What’s kind of depressing is the sheer number of Disney Corp backed films out there. 3 out of 6 of the shows at the local theater are all Disney or subsidiaries thereof. And Disney = Woke Statism of the worst kind.

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        1. Disney got captured by the DEI/ESG crowd years ago and their stuff has been steadily getting worse as people that want to make good stuff leave for one reason or another.

          And we’re seeing the end results. None of these people can create, only steal and wear somebody else’s creations like stolen glory.

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          1. And their stock value and bottom line keeps falling, the stockholders my very well revolt. this one is waiting with baited breath to see what happens next, better show than any movie they have put out in years, popcorn and skittles please, oh Rasinettes.

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            1. Most of the people I know have written off Star Wars after the third season of The Mandalorian and the dumpster fire that it was.

              I don’t think if they crucified Kathleen Kennedy in front of the Disney Studios could get them back.

              I do think that Disney and a lot of the other studios are using the Writer’s Strike to get rid of bad liabilities that they currently have, which is why you’re seeing a lot of cancellations.

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              1. Truthfully I thought the first season of Mandalorian was shite and didn’t finish it. Chose not to inflict the second and third season on myself. The plot and the dialogue, OMG.

                Star Wars? No. Hard no. Not spending my money.

                Hollywood writers have some gall going on strike like this, I must say. The average high school manga club could do better.

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                1. The problem is…I can see some of the reasons why they’d go on strike.

                  ChatGPT and those programs are the current Hot New Thing in tech. A lot of writers are scared that the studios are going to just farm out “writing” to these bots (I’m hearing a lot of slow-hiring or job creep in marketing and technical writing because they’re expecting these programs to get better and take a lot of the copywriting/technical writing jobs), have a human editor polish the scripts, and not have to pay writer’s rates or residuals for the editing work.

                  I’m thinking that we’re dealing with a flash-in-the-pan thing right now, but I could be wrong…

                  (And, by GOD I could write better scripts than these people. Ask me about my Snow White and the Seven Samauri idea that I am trying to get out there…)

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                    1. Chat GPT is fairly terrible (I will admit that I’ve used it to generate some ideas that I don’t have a clue how to write, like making weird custom drinks or “explain money laundering to a five-year-old”), but for the most part…it’s not creative in ways that work. Or I feel comfortable talking about.

                      The problem is that I can see a kind of “endgame” for this software being something like the device in 1984, where the Ministry of Truth just pulls a lever and they get something out to sell to the proles that gives a momentary thrill and nothing else.

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                    2. I think, having seen some of the Chattybot output, that it is as good a writer as most of those hacks on strike. They could replace them all with the ‘bot and we might not notice a dip in quality.

                      And the chatbot is a CRAP writer. OMG.

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                    2. Write the novel or the short story, whatever, and post it. If you wait for a production company to pick it up you’ll be a little old man. Make hay while the sun shines, as they say.

                      On the other hand, have you tried reaching out to Japanese companies? I can’t be the only anime weeb who heard “Snow White and the Seven Samurai” and said “YES!!!!!! DO IT!!!!”

                      And a woke-free version? double-plus good.

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                    4. I can see that actually working. Snow White instead of a Japanese village. Seven Samurai instead of Prince What’s-his-name and the Seven Little People as her defenders-champions. Last Samurai standing gets to marry the Princess.

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                    5. The story I had was that Snow White (Anne Hathaway or someone like her) washes up on the shores of Japan due to a shipwreck, trying to get to her father (who is in Shimoda, back in the days when Japanese ports were sealed) and is trying to get away from her wicked stepmother and evil stepsisters (magic may be involved).

                      Meanwhile, her father learns of this and sends two…expendable men (Nick Frost and Simon Pegg keep showing up when I’m writing this) to go and bring her back.

                      Hilarity, cultural misunderstandings, monsters of both the Western and Eastern kind, and much swordplay. The seven samurai are all Japanese actors (and one actress), btw.

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                    7. More maritime nations often have a hero or heroine set adrift on the sea rather than lost in the woods. Italy vs. Germany for instance. A shipwrecked Snow White would be quite plausible.

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                    9. Only saw the movie once. I really need to get a copy for myself. And most of my remembrances are through the filter of the Magnificent Seven (mostly the original with Yul Brynner.)

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                    10. Well, there are Snow White variants where she meets up with forest knights in the woods.

                      Also giants, robbers, and dragons.

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            2. Apparently the new Little Mermaid remake is “under performing” due to their usual demographic not turning out to watch it. This is being blamed on racism, but I strongly doubt that has anything to do with it.

              I think it will take some time for the ruination of their brand to sink in at Disney. Very soon, or maybe already, the Disney logo on a film or other media will indicate “Woke groomer” to parents rather than child-appropriate. After the “Sexy Disney Princess” progression from the 90s to the 2010s, Mom and Dad Normie are beginning to buy with caution.

              The people running the company seem very okay with that. Doubling down again and again. It probably will take a shareholder coup to get them to stop, as you say.

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                2. …somebody in HR has massively screwed up, and if they haven’t been fired for that…

                  The guy could just be that unusual and odd bits of weird-he’s a little creepy, he’s harmless. Or he could be grooming or doing other things while working there.

                  That’s a massive lawsuit waiting to happen.

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              2. There’s been some news reports from people saying that right now is the best time to get out of having any Disney stock. Value has gone down massively, Galactic Starcruiser is closing, projects are closing down, movies are failing, D+ is talking about doing ad-supported streaming…

                If I was a large institutional investor, I’d be seeing if I could get enough money together to buy enough shares to force the current board out and get the ESG/DEI crowd out of any authority.

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              3. I thought it was doing fairly well, but was crashing in China.
                Mind you, I never saw the cartoon, having a fondness for Andersen’s original story.
                OTOH, found a copy of, “Fantasia 2000,” which is largely quite watchable. (Worst segment involves taking, “The Pines of Rome,” and using it as a background for flying humpback whales (!)). Found I actually preferred their ending to, “The Steadfast Tin Soldier,” to the original. Who knew?

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                  1. My favorite, too, though both “Carnival of the Animals,” and “Pomp and Circumstance,” are also good. Laughed all through, “flamingos with yo-yos.”

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                2. The original cartoon, according to a few lesbian friends of mine, was where they discovered they had a foot fetish (the scene when Ariel first started to walk on the beach). So, they were not happy when the remake came out.

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      2. You’re singing my song. Write what you want to read instead of putting up with the Woke crap infesting the book store and the comic store.

        https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/marvel-voices-pride-2023-announcement

        This is what Marvel is selling for Pride Season. No longer just a parade, a day, a week or even a month. Now a whole June to September summer of rainbow-flavored activism.

        Check out how bad the art is on these covers. Wow. It looks like they chained a monkey to a desk and made them draw.

        It seems they are very serious about not wanting my money. I’m happy to oblige.

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          1. The real problem is that with the duopoly, comics and superheroes are captive genres. More indie stuff is needed.

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            1. The issue is the up-front costs.

              I’ve looked, and unless you are truly a Rennaissance Man (or Woman, or Creature of Indeterminate Gender), a decent artist isn’t cheap. And then the printing and publication and shipping gets expensive, so there’s a lot of up-front costs.

              If I had the dosh for a good artist, Steel Team would be up on Kickstarter for pre-orders right now.

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              1. Personally I just did a novel. But that’s not breaking the comics monopoly, only the superhero one, and there are effects from the medium.

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                1. I’ve got some ideas for non-superhero comics (or to be more accurate, manga, because that’s how my brain works). Just that Steel Team is this idea that’s been percolating in my brain for a while and it works better drawn.

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              2. Which is why most indies start out with digital, and then launch Kickstarters, etc. to cover those costs. See Jon Del Arroz and his “Flying Sparks” comic.

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                    3. I would be curious to see her stuff. I have a few ideas and I’m willing to bring the mountain to Mohammad if he needed some gravel and paving stones, if my straned analogy makes any sense.

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        2. That seems to be pretty standard now. My son gave me a 50th anniversary anthology for the Teen Titans, and the later art ranged from OK to awful. (They reached their peak with Wolfman and Perez).

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        1. I suspect the same as well, with the added bonus that you can still drive the AMC Gremlin (if it’s in good condition), but what good are comic books that you won’t read and people won’t buy, other than fireplace tinder?

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  26. I’ve got your general strike right here:

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/groom-and-doom-target-shares-mark-longest-losing-streak-almost-5-years

    Target has lost 12.8 BILLION dollars in market capitalization over their “Pride” month advertising campaign. People seem to be outraged the most by the “tuck-friendly” children’s swimsuits.

    If you put “tuck-friendly” girlie swimsuits in the men’s department people would roll their eyes and walk on by. By putting them in the children and toddler section, the implication is made much more clear. Mom and Dad Normie can’t ignore that anymore. Now you’re going after -their- kid.

    Now, I can hear the screams from the Usual Suspects loud and clear. Bonnie McDaniel is shrieking “transphobic!” and rending his/her/their garments in paroxysms of rage. The reason they’re doing that is so we won’t notice something.

    The thing they don’t want anyone to notice is the difference between social acceptance of trans -individuals-, and a marketing/propaganda campaign aimed at children.

    Drag-queen ready-to-wear in the men’s department at Target? Nobody cares. It might even sell. Adults choose for themselves, right? Free country.

    In the little children’s department? $12.8 billion loss of market cap, general boycott of the chain, and if you keep pushing eventually normal people will come and vandalize your retail displays. For sure.

    Because one of those things is not like the other. Sorry Bonnie, we noticed. Scream louder, eh?

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          1. Certain bot farmers and desert ungulate turds have flocks of flying monkeys. They scrape everything in sight for flying monkey outrage clicks. Even my miniscule blog gets scraped, they’re that desperate.

            It’s so difficult staying relevant in the Leftosphere, I guess. Gotta find a new witch to burn every week…

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    2. These are the sort of optics that should have had senior staff members wondering if the people proposing this should remain employed with Target.

      Adult men or women’s section? Creepy, but there aren’t bad optics.
      Children’s/teens section? Scary and bad optics. People who normally won’t care or will support these things on the basis of “not in my backyard, not my problem” now have it in their backyard. And now it’s a problem.

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          1. The problem is that when your 401k managed by Vanguard buys Disney or Target, either THEY own the shares of the company, or you may own them but part of the investment agreement is that Vanguard holds and votes your proxies. If the woke are the shareholders it explains a lot.

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            1. If you want to believe in conspiracy theories, that’s a good one. Defeat capitalism by buying up capitalistic assets and crashing them into the ground. In the crash, you can have the government come in and take over.

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            2. One of the things we need to change after the oncoming unpleasantness is the structure of mutual funds and ETFs. The voting rights in the shares of the underlying companies need to be passed through to the shareholders of the funds and not voted by the fund managers. Not very hard to implement, but it would eliminate this very real problem.

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              1. The problem is that most people don’t want to be bothered with it, and just check the box assigning the proxies to the fund. And for some reason they tend not to ask again each year. It takes some persistent asking to change that.

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  28. Bonus shopping – stick this on the front of each link https://

    babylonbee.com/news/with-all-other-companies-going-woke-conservatives-make-last-stand-at-texas-buc-ees

    texasislife.com/food/you-can-now-get-bucees-snacks-shipped-straight-to-your-door/

    texassnax.com/

    Made me hungry just looking!

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  29. Hm. A good opportunity to do a lights out weekend.

    I wonder if it would be cheating to use my battery powered drill?

    I went to town yesterday. Theoretically I shouldn’t need anything else for at least a month. The operative word being “need,” of course.

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  30. Regarding Trump falling for the Covidiocy and why – remember that he’s a germophobe. They couldn’t have come up with a psy-op he’d be more vulnerable to if they’d planned it.

    Oh wait.

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