Tell It Again

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

I often feel like everything I came to this blog to say has been said, like I’m repeating myself, like there is no point in going on.

I know I’m not the only one thinking that, as I keep getting occasional comments about preaching to the choir, or “what is the point of speaking up. Everyone who will hear will already have heard.”

And since I’ve been at this, more or less 12 years and change, it’s easy to believe that. At this point, who doesn’t know my views on Marxism? And if they rejected them in the past, why would they listen now.

And then this week, I had one of those experiences that changed my mind on this.

First, I shared a meme on facebook that listed all the movies in which we sympathize with the resistance, and ask what’s wrong with us in real life. Now, I hesitated a little on sharing it, because “the resistance” is a memetic thing that the left has highjacked. They call themselves the resistance against you know, the “fascists” of the right, because they put little stupid signs on their lawns and imagine they’re singing the Marseillaise in the face of the Nazis. And you know — you know — this is complete and utter nonsense. Because they are completely in their own head and think that they are the brave underdog, even while they control every institution, corporation, etc. At this point they imagine they are fighting invisible demons that no one has ever detected “institutional racism” and “micro aggressions” and whatever. They are in such denial of the fact they are actually the people in charge of the institutions that they have to invent something greater to fight. And like every time they try to invent something, they’re failing and instead are exposing how silly they are.

And so, because we are the real resistance, and paying for it in career and income, and for more and more of us every day in arrests and being sued, I decided to share it.

What would never occur to me, never in a million years, was that this meme had originally been created by Palestinian-sympathizers. It never occurred to me, because I guess I’m innocent and I’d never think that raping women and children and killing entire families in horrible ways and taking babies hostage and killing them, and displaying innocent civilian corpses as trophies was “resistance.” Or in fact that Palestinians were resisting anything. They certainly didn’t resist the temptation to becoming a murderous parasite, taking all the money that is handed to them and producing nothing but Jew hatred.

I guess I’m innocent, okay?

But at the same time here, we must apply a bit of a check. I don’t actually know the meme was created by someone like that, or just shared by them. Frankly, it could have been something invented by a leftist who didn’t like the meme. There is nothing in the meme, which is white words on black, with no signature or byline, to indicate that should be the interpretation put on it, or that anyone posting it would agree with that interpretation. Needless to say, where I found it was someone in our cohort, not the fishing phallestinians.

However as soon as I put it up I had several of the people who have followed me forever and who are Jewish defending themselves as though they thought I was pro-Palestinian (as if I’d be pro-savagery.) So, I told them the truth, that as far as I’m concerned, Israel is fighting for Western civilization itself, and if we turn a blind eye to the horrors of October 7, we are consigning civilization to savagery and the whim of barbarians. And also that yes, I’m still salty about October 7. I’ll be salty till the end of days.

And suddenly, people who have followed me forever and who should have known better, were — PLEASANTLY — shocked that I was on the side of Israel, and so vehemently so. I suppose at least that is not a surprise to anyone who reads HERE, but who knows?

Here’s the thing, these are not randos. They are people who followed me for years. But they didn’t GET that I was pro-Israel. And I haven’t been mealy mouthed about it.

So, here’s the thing: We must repeat ourselves, because we’re not the center of the universe.

Just because I say something a number of times, it doesn’t mean that the world stops to listen to every single one.

Just because I say something and someone rejects it, it doesn’t mean that on another day, said slightly differently, they won’t hear.

Just because I say something, it doesn’t mean that the person on the other side even noticed that day.

Heck, even for people who read me every day, I’ve noticed sometimes I say something that’s been said a number of times, and suddenly it means something to them as though it were the first time; or it gives them the argument they need to explain it to the kids, or–

Also, the culture is loud with “abandon all hope you who disagree with commies” that I think sometimes people don’t hear me.

And there is a purpose to the repetition. And it does something good.

So, I’m going to keep beating my little drum. Right here.

Rattatatatat.

159 thoughts on “Tell It Again”

  1. Weird.

    I can’t understand why people would believe that you’d be pro-Palestinian? 🤦‍♂️😲

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    1. Still shaking my head after reading that someone thought Sarah was pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel. Seriously. Wait? What? Blink! Pro-Israel all the way. Anti-Palestinian-terrorist, all day, all week, all month, all year, forever. Sarah has stated multiple times that Israel is fighting for all of us. Israel goes down, so does the world. It will be an unimaginable nightmare.

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      1. “Gobsmacked” works for me; it’s shorter and pithier than “Sitting here with my mouth hanging open and my eyes wide in disbelief”.

        But as for the value of repetition, everything we hear is heard in the context of all of our experiences since the last time we heard the same thing (if we did). So *this* time it might just strike fertile soil.

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  2. You could do a semi-regular “blast from the past” or greatest hits post and republish stuff you have done before. Maybe see if any need updating but it’s not unheard of.

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  3. Being completely immune to Faceborg, I haven’t seen that meme. Could you post it here, O BBESP?

    (DDG shows a lot of “resistance” memery, but beyond WW 2 vintage and lefties pretending they’re the underdogs, nothing much.)

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      1. It’s this, and now after all these days, I note that the name of the original poster is someone totally unknown and for all I know, rabbidly pro-Palestinian. All I can say is I didn’t notice.

        TBF that it would apply to phallestinians is a stretch, but whatevs.

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        1. Well, they are all movies, so major selection bias. Name one “Brave Imperials against evil rebels” film, ever.

          Even Bravely-Brave Subverting-Expectations KK-era Star Wars didn’t go there by doing a rebellion against the Republic story. They just redid the same exact George Lucas Vietnam War thing except with “Guuurls are better than icky drooling Boys”.

          As for Team Baby Beheading, the only thing they are resisting is the entire structure, norms and practices of human civilization. They deserve the frelling that they’ve bought.

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          1. There was an episode of Star Trek that had the rebels (against a local planetary government) as the bad guys. The rebel leader compared himself with George Washington, but was quite happy to take Dr. Crusher as a hostage when the opportunity presented itself (Dr. Crusher disagreed with the Washington comparison, IIRC).

            Anything involving rebels in Warhammer 40,000 probably has soul-eating (literally…) aliens or Eldritch powers backing the rebels.

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            1. There was an episode of Voyager where the rebels were trying to re-install the evil dictator who had been overthrown. They uploaded his mind into Kes’s body and he used her psychic powers. Also, DS9 had the Kon’ma (total guess on how to spell that) who were a sub faction of the Bajoran resistance who wanted to get Star Fleet off Bajor. and in later seasons there was The Circle, who were actually funded by the Cardassians to get rid of Star Fleet so they could get the wormhole.

              I can’t think of any movies were the resistance are the bad guys but I think that is because you have to establish that the Empire are the good guys, but that takes time.

              Although, I think there was a resistance group in the Lost In Space movie who were bad guys trying to stop the Jupiter 2 from launching.

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          3. Stretching the definition a little, there are plenty of action movies where the villains are terrorists, extremists, separatists, or self-professed rebels. How pure their motives are varies, but at least some of them are portrayed as believing in the cause. (Black Panther jumps to mind.)

            But yeah, not a lot of full-blown rebellions painted in a negative light. I’m not sure whether that’s due to political bias, cultural inertia, or the fact that rebels are natural underdogs, but it’s an untapped storytelling vein.

            The Sequel Trilogy was a real missed opportunity to flip the script on Empire vs. Rebellion. Ah well. I wonder how Star Quest is coming along.

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        2. Point of order. When I watched <i>Star Wars</i>, I didn’t side with the resistance, I sided with the Rebel Alliance. Thirty-eight years later, when they had that weird sub-rebellion against the rebellious First Order and called that the Resistance, I ended up a lot less sympathetic. (It only really set in at the SW+40 mark with Episode VIII, but that’s where it set in with a whole lot of people.)

          If you really want to cheese off all the proper people, identify us with the French Resistance. Also remind them that the lucky collaborators were the ones getting their heads shaved after the Liberation.

          And since it bears repeating,

          <i>Republica restituendae,

          et

          Hamas delenda est</i>

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            1. It looks like they have that fancy little italic thing at the top. Though, this comment box, and some others, lack the formatting header and the little boxes. Sigh.

              When it shows, it looks like a slash. Haven’t tried it. For what it’s worth, let’s try to italisize (totally a word) a section.

              Sire, the peasants are revolting! :)

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          2. One thing the “anti-Trump” Resistance should have kept in mind is that the French Resistance lost plenty of members while fighting the Germans and “only won” when Americans & British forces “invaded” France.

            Of course, after the end of WW2 there were more “members of the French Resistance” than there were when Germany occupied France. :twisted:

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            1. Something also not talked about is that in some parts of France, the communist resistance fighters had no qualms about selling out the non-communist resistance groups.

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        3. Yeah, I never would have made that connection. I can kind of see how they intend it with their distorted worldview and tendency to redefine words. But when I saw it I though to it in terms of Conservatism against the empire here composed of all major American institutions – as run by the Left..

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          1. Lefties are forever the heroes in their own story and always shocked and offended to find people who don’t see them as such.

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        4. My wife got this from #changeyournewssources, and I commented to her on the couch: “That’s because when watching the movie you get a whole story. But in reality you’re just not watching the right movie”.

          Call this the documentary effect. Documentaries are compelling because they tell the story from the singular point of view of the documenter, with their set of facts and opinions, their evidence, their presentation. Not that documentaries are universally biased and unreliable, but they need to be considered carefully.

          Having said that, if you’re watching ‘the movie’, you need to know who produces it, what their intentions are, and judge accordingly. This is why, when I try to engage Leftists, I ignore the news media and go to source documents. And so many tell me straight away, that they can’t really trust court filings, judges’ decisions, pleadings, etc. And with that, I demur. None are so blind as those who *will* not see.

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          1. Okay. I’ll buy that. But they’ve convinced all decent (and the people who descended on my thread are decent. I’ve known them for years) to think they’re being attacked when this is shared. It’s like outsourcing evil to innocents.
            Looks at ceiling. I think one of them blocked me before he read that no, I wasn’t standing with Hamass, I interpreted the meme as left/right US.

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            1.  It’s like outsourcing evil to innocents.

              Yep.

              Which I try to make sure that I TELL FOLKS, when/if they are shown they were lied to.

              Folks lied to them to get good people to do the enforcing for them, because they knew that some folks are not trusting enough to trust the Bad people.

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        6. This seems like one of those things that is only specific to one group if you have the current code book to let you know. Like the Dems saying that attacking HUD is “code” for attacking blacks. Or finding a poem someone posted somewhere else and sharing it here and finding out its been repurposed for racial reasons. Can happen to anyone.

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        7. Memes travel. Here’s a way it could work.

          Start with freedom fighters using it to stand up to the clot-shotting* establishment. Great stuff.

          Turns out that not so long ago, the Israeli leadership was all in on clot-shot-injury denial, and also selling the Israeli people as experimental test subjects to the global pharmaceutical companies. Granted, the only reason we know this is because of brave Israelis also fighting these [expletive deleted] monsters, but bear with me.

          Now you’re Anti-Israel Leadership (only a tiny stretch there)

          Months later you get the Palestinian attacks because when the cat’s been belled, the rats get lively.

          So the Israeli leadership does the only thing it can do, and takes on Palestine up to and including genocide of Hamas, in the same way any sane government would genocide Antifa black block. And yes, the UN, World whatsits and so on, define either one as genocide. It’s not what a normal person would call them, but then they’re also the people in charge of defining vaccines. Or bigotry. Or climate. And not just on social media, but definitely there.

          Now Bob’s your uncle, Fanny’s your aunt: Since you’re opposing Israeli leadership, ya gotta be Pro-Palestine, right? Like being anti-Biden makes you automatically pro-Trump (or vice versa). Which is a thing, however peculiar it strikes me.

          The anti-clot-shot wars have made for some weird bedfellows to be sure, and social media is a dumpster fire.

          *Or transing. Or lockdown. Or eat-bugs-and-be-happy. Pick your poison: It’s not like we’re not spoiled for choice, we-the-people, with our aristos.

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  4. We don’t agree on everything, I am human so are you, (Haven’t seen anything that would indicate you were a lizard like chameleon from Alpha Proboscis so we’ll stick with human) so we will have disagreements mainly minor/major ones. But you can never scream freedom from the mountain tops loud enough, nor long enough. Satan Claus is out there, at the moment he is wearing commie red, antifa black and democrat blue. Fight the good fight everybody, every minute of every day.

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    1. Forgot the emoji, I’ve been warned by my daughter not to do that stuff but what they hey…🦅

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        2. LOL. Speaking of, I literally fell asleep in the middle of answering your email. Not the email. me. I’ll try to answer today. If I don’t poke me.

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        1. She’s a cat,

          and we love her.

          She’s a keeper,

          she’s got class.

          She’s a cat,

          and she’s a good one

          And we wish that we could travel her way.

          Wish that we could travel her way.

          Wish that we could travel her way.

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            1. Probably. Back when William Blackfox was still among us, I asked him to do a caricature of our family. I wanted to be a cat. He drew me as a horse. Oh, well.

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              1. Just so. And I hear it sung by Thurl Ravenscroft in a (very bad) Russian accent as he was supposed to be a Russian Blue. Clearly the animator had never seen one, or the breed has varied greatly from its mid 60’s standards.

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            5. I claimed to be part dragon / part cat for many years, until I was forced to accept that I am neither. I’m a bear, a mama bear with no cubs. Which actually leaves me free to adopt any cub I like, even if they are cats or wolves or adorable little velociraptors.

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  5. A long time ago an individual much my senior told me two things when I was first starting out doing presentations:

    First, Every Single Time, you have to tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them, then tell them what you told them.

    And then, you get to repeat yourself by doing it again.

    It’s basically fractal, a repeating pattern of repeats in the hopes that it sticks, but you can never stop.

    So yeah, preaching to the choir sometimes, but sometimes there’s someone new in eth choir loft, or finally one of the choir is actually listening, or their headspace is finally set correctly so they CAN hear it, or there’s someone new hiding outside the front door listening in.

    That’s just how it works.

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    2. I’m one of those “old seniors” who preached that exact thing. I also remember being told (Bob Pike out of MN) that everyone had a favorite radio station: WINFM and that stands for “what’s in it for me?” 

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    3. I was taught that in grade school. It’s how we were taught to write speeches and papers. Tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them (with supporting evidence) then tell them what you told them. This was 40 years ago.

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  6. I think we need to keep hearing these things for the same reason God so often tells us to “fear not”. To remember that we’re not alone, we’re not crazy, and worst case scenario we will all go together when we go.

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  7. What threw me was at our church when October 7 happened, crickets. Every shooting for the past year that we attended (the ones that made the news anyway), they made a big show about praying for. But over a thousand people tortured, raped and murdered, nothing.
    Then, after the Chiefs won the Superbowl, there was a shooting at the big rally afterwards. Everyone was shocked and horrified at the the one death and multiple injuries.
    Now, I would expect that something happening in our own backyard, as it were, to make a bigger impact than something on the other side of the world. But one thing being nothing and the other horrifying was too much for me.
    We are currently without a church home. Again.
    I apologize, but I am linking to my blog about my reactions:
    https://open.substack.com/pub/jasinikc/p/well-perhaps-they-were-frustrated?r=kihoy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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    1. I’m not shocked, alas.

      The blogger who shall not be named has a somewhat useful term for such people from your former church. “Churchians”, implying the ritual, but not the practice of Christianity.

      (It’s one of the few things I agree with him, but even a blind squirrel can find a nut.)

      We left our former church for similar unChristian behavior among both the leadership and the handfull who were still attending. Some churches deserve to fold.

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        2. You gotta understand how twisted people will get to avoid admitting error and/or sin.

          There is a rebuke process specified in Scripture. But when it fails, you knock the dust from your sandals and move on. Where two or more are gathered in His name is the requirement. Note He doesn’t say a suit and wooden podium in a big fancy room.

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    3. My sympathies. My leftwing relatives have bought the Pallywood propaganda completely so there’s just no talking to them about anything.

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    4. Well, my church has someone who went further. A retired District Superintendent (DS, responsible for “managing,” the churches in the district) and minister got caught on his apartment complex camera marking his Jewish neighbor’s grocery delivery with a swastika variation. He claimed it was a, “Buddhist love sign,” which brings up the question of why a United Methodist minister, even in California, would use a Buddhist symbol. Certainly doesn’t make the denomination look good.

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      1. I heard about that idiot.

        As for that “Buddhist love sign”, I doubt that the Jewish woman would have see it as “a Buddhist live sign”. :mad:

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      2. That person has some serious ‘splainin to do. And not to his congregation.

        Dipstick cant even manage to draw his chosen hate-symbol.

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      3. Did he draw the swastitka backwards? While that is a real thing, a sauwistika which is a Hindu symbol with the arms in the opposite direction, I’m betting the guy just drew it wrong. We had something similar happen years ago in my town. Some local idiots vandalized a the wall of a synagogue and one of them drew a swastika. They got the hate crime charge dropped because the arms were facing the wrong way. I don’t think they were particularly anti-Semitic, they were just painting junk on the walls of an alley and didn’t even know one of the buildings was a synagogue. They were just dumb kids.

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        1. it had two arms in one direction and two bent the other way. Also, one of the two arms was considerably shorter than the other, so it was not a “classic,” swastika. But given he’d already called her a “fascist,” on social media, I suspect he was just in a hurry.

          (The sort of preacher with a, “We welcome the brown-skinned illegal immigrant,” sign near the pulpit for Christmas).

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  8. Wait, what’s that? I didn’t catch it.

    Yeah, things have to be repeated over and over. Some people will get it the first time, but others will take a while. I think you’re perfectly clear in your beliefs, but, I’m a computer programmer. I tend to take people at face value without looking for deeper motivations.

    And, yes, I was also surprised to find out that it was the pro-Palestinian folks pushing that meme. It doesn’t mean what they think it means.

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  9. The ‘Conservatives!’ they hate believe robbery, rape and murder are wrong, so of course ‘Progressives’ have to be in favor of crime. ‘Conservatives’ value work and thrift; so must ‘Progressives’ denigrate work and promote irresponsible waste.

    In other news, Nikki Haley has finally thrown in the towel. I could have told her two weeks ago, “Get out the butter and jam, you’re toast.”

    Supposedly, ‘Americans’ are ‘planning to flee in droves’ if Trump is elected. Please, please follow through this time! Don’t just lie in the street wailing like you’ve been ‘misgendered’, get up and go somewhere else!!

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    1. Honestly, that’s what I am coming to think that the vile progs believe … anything that so-called conservatives are for must-must-must be wrong and evil, and so they (the vile progs) must be against it.

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      1. Saves them the trouble of actually thinking. They don’t have to reason out a position based on facts and logic, just indulge in knee-jerk opposition.

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      2. “They’re narrow-minded religious fanatics who don’t want /anybody/ to have any fun!”

        says the same people who don’t want anybody to say or do anything they don’t approve.

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      1. maybe? or something unwritten… plucky kids and their teacher go to a different world, horrible accident, teacher is out of it, kids have to band together and use their wits to survive, etc etc.

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        1. Not a different world. I can see the Mediterranean and the Middle East quite clearly. There’s a cloud bank north of the Straits Of Gibraltar, but you can make it out.

          Reminds me of a peeve I have with a lot of anime. Every moon has the same features as the Moon. When there are two or more moons, they all have identical features in the same orientation, even if different sizes and colors. Always in the same relative positions in the sky, too, which is astrophysically impossible. (That’s totally a word, AutoCorrupt!)

          Come on, people, is it that hard to make different shapes?

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              1. Reminds me of an article I read once in Dragon magazine talking about how no matter how fantastical the beasts in a fantasy world get, you still have normal horses. The opening of the article was a quick bit of fiction in which the protagonist suddenly discovers a horse… but is surprised that it’s blue.

                It’s not entirely true about horses. For example, Final Fantasy games all use chocobos – large (usually) flightless birds that can carry passengers and haul heavy loads. And there are a handful of other settings that also use something exotic. But regular old horses are pretty common whenever the author of a fantasy world needs an animal that does everything a real-world horse does.

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                1. In my primary world they have a different animal. I initially called it a horse, but my writing group rather freaked when they found out it had claws. Same with dog, which I still sometimes call a hound since they serve the same purpose, but the word dog is no longer.

                  It always drove me nuts when reading and you have a “draft animal” or a “tracking animal.” Why not just say what it is? Even if it doesn’t look exactly the same, it fits the category.

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                  1. Earth colonists encounter animals that aren’t exactly the same as the earth animals they left behind. But still called them by the earth animals they represent. Then over centuries, because the colonists were cutoff from earth, their decedents call animals horses or dogs, yet the animals aren’t horses or dogs.

                    Then there are places like McCaffery’s Pern. They have “runners”, “canines”, “felines”. Yet they are earth horses, dogs, and cats, brought from old earth. Just the colonists survivors descendants, over time, forgot not only their original origins but the origins and names of the animals they brought with them.

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                    1. And because, “canines,” “felines,” and so on sound, “scientific.”

                      Yet they remember to call tunnel snakes, snakes, not some “scientific,” variation.

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                  3. It always drove me nuts when reading and you have a “draft animal” or a “tracking animal.” Why not just say what it is?

                    *looks at own drabble from Sunday * Because you’re trying to scrape the serial numbers off and haven’t come up with a decent substitute name?

                    XD

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                2. Reminds me of an article I read once in Dragon magazine talking about how no matter how fantastical the beasts in a fantasy world get, you still have normal horses.

                  Edgar Rice Burroughs and Kenneth Bulmer (two whose work I happen to be familiar with) would like to have a word.

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                3. Lord Yupa in Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind rides a giant turkey. Followed by a pack turkey on a leash.

                  Ashitaka in Princess Mononoke rides a red deer.

                  Hiero in Hiero’s Journey and The Unforsaken Hiero by Sterling Lanier rides a ‘morse’ which is part moose, part horse.

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                  1. I thought Hiero’s “morse” was a “modified” moose without horse DNA. But it’s been awhile since I read those books. And since Hiero’s world was an after-the-nuke-war world, there were plenty of altered species in it.

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                  2. Other real-world animals can serve as mounts. For instance, you might have a tribe that uses rhino cavalry. The important thing is that normal horses are common even in many otherwise fantastical settings.

                    Also, Mononoke isn’t all that fantastical. It’s true that the fantastic exists in the form of the spirits. But the physical world within the setting is something that wouldn’t look out of place in feudal Japan (aside from the gender items). It’s basically real-world feudal Japan with animal spirits (which sort of includes the giant wolves).

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                  3. Look at Alma’s Merchants series. They have beasts of burden — but no riding animals that I remember seeing. You’d think someone would have tried saddling one of them…. although given her description of great-haulers, it would be a bold man indeed who made that experiment. 8-)

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                4. If fantasy worlds have humans, they’re likely to have horses, dogs, and other real-world domesticated animals as well. If they don’t have those other real-world mammals, it raises the question of “why not?”

                  In one of the several fantasy worlds I created, I decided that the plants, invertebrates, cold-blooded vertebrates, and birds would be basically the same as on Earth. But the mammals would all be different, with the exception of humans and dogs (and dogs would be rare). And I have a world-building explanation for this in the background.

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  11. Thanks for this. I have blogged at The Orthosphere since 2012, and often feel lately that I have nothing new to say, and nothing to say that isn’t already being said elsewhere, a lot (we were among the first reactionary blogs, but now there are lots of such). Indeed, not a few times I have written a blogpost that I thought at the time was expressing something new, only to find WordPress suggesting links from it to another essay saying exactly the same thing from a few years earlier. I have been thinking, “o well, what’s the point after all?”

    But you remind me that the preachers have been getting up in the pulpit every Sunday for 2,000 years saying the same basic thing every time because the same basic thing needs to be said, again and again.

    So, I’ll keep writing.

    Thanks.

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    1. I object to reactionary it being a Marxist term for their opposition. We oppose them because they suck, not “in reaction.” But the rest? You’re welcome.

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      1. We at the Orthosphere are reactionaries to the Revolution of 1789. Way, way before Marx. We are the Reaction of de Maistre and
        Bonald (and for that matter Burke) to that Revolution.

        We are for that matter reactionaries to the nominalist revolution in philosophy of circa AD 1400. Marx and the Jacobins could never have got started, were it not for the nominalists. Marxism and Jacobinism are to nominalism as Anglicanism and Calvinism are to Catholicism.

        “We react to them because they err (and so, suck);” how is there a difference that makes a difference between that and “we oppose them because they suck”?

        I’m not willing to concede any term to the Marxians.

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  13. My phone is insane. It keeps saying that accordingtohoyt.com is not responding. And WP is apparently even worse.

    Anyway, I have been told that a new concept needs to he encountered 7 times before it sinks in.

    So if you reach them on try 3, or 6, you’re still closer to the point where it clicks.

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    1. “WP is apparently even worse”

      Not “apparently”; WP is worse. Worse than what, you ask? Plug in anything “less worse” than The Adversary, and you won’t go far wrong. WPDE.

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  14. For me the repetition is useful and reassuring because it’s usually regarding yet another ‘event’ or ‘occurrence’ or just ‘example #27,432,356’ of it, and … having you confirm I’m not the only one who sees it’s (Oh God, here we go again) …

    The other thing I’ve noticed is that even saying the exact same thing just phrased slightly differently can lead some’ to finally understand, or to understand ‘better’ (I keep thinking of those memes posted with apparently jumbled letters that I seem to be able to read easily, but no-one else I know can. I don’t feel ‘superior’ I immediately start wondering what ‘my’ unknown, amongst all the known, blind-spots are*). Biases, personal blind-spots or touchy subjects, can lead ‘us’ to not see the wood for the trees, so it’s (at least for me) been useful to read others opinions and interpretations – preferably phrased in varying shades so I ‘might’ eventually understand.

    That and, some of us came to this party later than others of us, so ‘we’ still appreciate the ‘novel – at least to us’ opinions. So please don’t stop, this is one of the few places I come to to remain (vaguely – ignore what my annual eval says) sane.

    [*I was once compared to Sir Terry, by a ‘lady’ I was corresponding with. My immediate elation at apparently ‘coming across’ as erudite, witty and sarcastic lasted all of … three seconds, before I immediately started fearing she was really saying I sounded like I had Alzheimers. It’s hard being me!

    For the record I ‘am’ witty. Barely a day goes by without someone, often complete strangers, coming up to me and telling me I’m ‘full of wit’ … at least I think that’s what they say].

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  15. I’m just tired of the hypocrisy. Just how people respond to things that should be obvious and clear.

    It won’t make me stop saying things, but damn it…when people who brag that they’re all about stopping evil actually are confronted by very clear evil…they start to excuse it…you lose hope at times.

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    1. Is that any worse than claiming to be “tolerant” and showing extreme INtolerance to any views not your own? Leftists are nothing* if not hypocritical.

      *Actually, leftists are nothing at all, but let’s be polite while reloading…

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  16. Has anyone heard anything about the announced New York City Truckers Strike? I’ll occasionally see videos in my feed with headlines talking about what its doing to NYC. But I don’t know the channels saying that, so I’m not sure whether the videos are trustworthy. And I’ve not seen anything about it literally anywhere else. Does anyone know whether anything really happened? I’m inclined to dismiss it as another nothingburger. For instance, I’d expect to see something about it on Instapundit if it was actually having some sort of effect. But I’d prefer to check whether anyone knows for certain.

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    1. The truckers who said they were not going into NY weren’t a large minority. As far as I know they are still making a personal statement but it hasn’t had any effect on New York. The largest effect I am aware of is that it drove up trucking prices for the city.

      It was used by the left to show how evil MAGA is, lots of tears and recriminations, then vanished from the news within a few days.

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    3. The thing is, a lot of truckers refuse to drive in the Northeast already, with the bad roads and screwy bridges (New York measures bridge height wierd, something about starting at the axle of a vehicle rather than the road surface) never mind the localities bad attitudes towards trucks.

      So any additional group also refusing will just means the price to ship will go up, as people refuse to bid on it. Someone with a truck payment due, or family nearby, will take it.

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    4. The Farmer’s protest continues in Europe. There were 100,000 of them in Warsaw and “pitched battles” with police. Do note that Poland’s government is now part of the globalist EU borg.

      The protests have been ongoing. I haven’t been posting on it since, well, this isn’t a news service, and you certainly won’t find it in the press, but it hasn’t stopped and keeps popping up now here, now there.

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      1. The guy my beloved has been following for war news out of Ukraine is bewildered by the farmers’ protests – why don’t they want to help Ukraine? Why doesn’t the Polish government do the obviously sensible thing and suppress them?

        Also he’s bought the, “Trump is a Russian sympathizer,” crap, because anyone who is not ready to pour more aid into Ukraine must be a Russian sympathizer.

        Still listen, and understand his viewpoint, I think, but it does get wearing.

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      3. Great news, guys! Biden has consulted with a number of former preside… I mean, actors who have played presidents… for advise on his State of the Union address tonight! Now we know he’ll knock it out of the park!

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        1. Saw that… 😂 “Leader of the Free World” my rosy red butt; he couldn’t organize a bachelor party in a brothel.

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  18. A few days ago in the comments here I mentioned video game diversity “consultant” company Sweet Baby Inc. and their completely predictable reaction to someone compiling a list of video games that SBI had served as a “consultant” for. It gets even better.

    Ace went over this already today. So if you read his article there, you can skip over it. But as I learned last night, apparently the head of SBI has – in the past – openly bragged about basically strong-arming companies into hiring SBI. SBI would tell employees of a development company to suggest to their management that the company hire SBI as a diversity “consultant”. If the management refused, then the employee was to start noting all of the terrible, horrible things that might happen if the developer didn’t hire SBI, such as the gaming media run horrible stories about the company’s upcoming “non-diverse” game. Further, the head of SBI has openly bragged on X about doing such things herself. ”Hire us, or we’ll get your game cancelled.”

    It’s not a surprise to anyone here that they would do such things, of course. But this is saying the quiet part out loud.

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      1. I don’t think SBI is going to exist much longer in any event. Gamers are making them radioactive. The fact that people are going to the trouble to track the specific games that SBI is involved with (which includes the recently announced Indiana Jones game) should make it clear that this isn’t something that will go away in a few months when the furor dies down.

        But don’t worry. New diversity “consultant” companies will step up to fill in the gap left by SBI’s departure.

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        1. I had to remember that a lot (most?) of gaming companies might just be in blue areas, so the Soros-DA would be disinclined to respond to wokextortion efforts.

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      2. Only if the extorter or extortee live in a red jurisdiction. In Texas, they will also have to have the cooperation of the county DA, per TX SC.

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      1. Hell, the law they’re trying to pass in Canuckistan calls for life in prison for thinking ‘hate speech’. How do they know what you’re thinking? They don’t, of course, but that won’t stop them. They might as well just go ahead and call it Thoughtcrime. Or the Jordan Peterson Act.

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        1. Well the solution is easy. Male enters woman’s bathroom. When he exposes himself, claim attempted sexual assault, use the boot, lead umbrella, etc., to best advantage. Women’s bathrooms have stalls. No one exposes themselves when they use the women facilities regardless how the toilets are used, unlike men’s bathrooms with alternative options.

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  19. For what it’s worth, I visited here once or twice way back when, but I only started reading regularly during the pandemic. So as a relative newcomer, I’m glad you’re repeating yourself.

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    1. Well as they say, history doesn’t always repeat itself- but it sure as heck does rhyme. Sometimes it’s worth revisiting old ideas in order to refine them in light of newer information. 

      Always good to have a few newcomers around. Don’t mind the horde. They don’t bite, and most of them are pretty darn smart. Good folks.

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      1. Well, some of the more antisocial drive-by posters (or those trying to take up residence (Hi Ken!)) have discovered that there’s a limit to incivility, and they experienced the fun of being a virtual chewtoy.

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  20. Horrible folks of the world love those movies about the little guy taking down the big man. They see themselves as the little guy, and us as the big man. 

    There’s a lot they- the horrible folks, the movie makers, and all the rest- don’t get. A good bit of both groups don’t get the hard work. They don’t get the doing the job even when everything in you doesn’t want to do it from your body to your state of mind, but that damned little voice in the back of your head says “suck it up buttercup. You don’t get to tighten the screws when you damn well choose.” 

    They don’t get the virtues of *self* sacrifice, charity, and mercy. They don’t get that those things are habits that build up over time. They don’t see all the times you could have slacked off, but didn’t. They don’t see that sometimes the evil that they themselves commit upon those around them.

    They don’t get that some means have no end that could possibly be worth that. They strive to be harder, viler, more vicious in their attacks so that “no one will want to mess with them.” Is it any wonder that they are raping corpses and beheading infants? 

    One does not “negotiate” with that kind of person. Them’s ones what need killin’. 

    Being “pro-Israel” is not something I ever seriously considered. It is being pro *civilization.* The Jews have been canaries in the coal mine for a long, long time. I tend to like the ones I’ve met. Seem like good folks. Heads on straight, got their priorities right. The ones what ain’t hard leftists- those I tend to avoid anyway. Mostly because of their politics, but a good lot of them don’t seem to believe in baths for some stupid reason or other.

    Bah. Been saying for a long time now, Israel just needs to push ’em into the sea for all I care. The idiots have been that bad for, oh, pretty much the entire time. 10/6 would have happened sooner if they could’ve managed it. Pox on ’em. May they get their audience with the Maker of All soonest that can be arranged. 

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  21. I’m so glad you wrote this. I have a blog that nobody reads because I also send the same out in a newsletter to 60-70 people. I have been getting worse about going 2 or 3 three days without sending my Links and Comments. I’ve had the thought I know we are preaching to the choir and I’m so old just let them have what they want, I won’t be around that many more years to see the collapse. But I have grand and great grandchildren and I want a good life for them, no one in a socialist country. So I am obsessed with gathering those links and sending them out to the choir, but the share with others and maybe one of those links or my snarky comments will get to someone who will have an ah ha moment and see the light and the craziness they are promoting.

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  22. Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.
    ― André Gide

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  24. There’s that trope the Left likes to trot out when they get pushback against their latest topic for outrage. “If it saves just one life…”

    Well, Sarah I would like to invoke it here. Keep on keeping on with the repetition. After all, if it saves just one mind from the woke virus, it’s all worth it.

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  25. It’s a truism that, if you repeat a lie often enough, some people will believe it. Why should that not also apply to the truth?

    If a repetition reaches even ONE more person – or makes the tiniest crack in their indoctrination – it is worth the effort.

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  26. I will add that isn’t just what you say that is important. It’s how you say it that is also of major importance. As a regular church attendant, I have heard the same sermon countless times often by the same person. But there are always things I missed or something new added in the delivery. These nuances can cause major breakthroughs. The choir needs to be preached to because they need it as much as anyone else, if not more, because they are the choir. I was in a group of people discussing recovery in a faith based recovery program. I have always had an aversion to “Christianeese” and used to get greatly annoyed when I would hear the same little sayings repeated throughout the years. I was expressing this in the group when a rather rough and disturbed individual spoke up and said “sometimes when I’m alone and cold on the streets, those sayings are all I have. They get me though.” It changed my view on that type of language because there was utility attached to it all of a sudden. I changed my thinking and feeling on the subject.

    I was attracted to this blog mostly because of the way these thoughts, many of them similar to my own, were stated because you SAH can write what I think better than I can say them myself. You are not telling me what to think but translating my thoughts to words better than I can. Reading the blog and the other posts and even many of the comments not only affirms what I know to be true, but it also gives me the ability to better communicate my thoughts to someone else, often without the use of multiple four letter words that don’t help my argument or my faith.

    if it is worth saying here, it’s probably worth repeating. People don’t always get it the first time through or the second. That’s why I always read the “blast from the past” posts. Because they are worth it. Every time. Thank you.

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  27. But at the same time here, we must apply a bit of a check. I don’t actually know the meme was created by someone like that, or just shared by them. Frankly, it could have been something invented by a leftist who didn’t like the meme.

    I’ve seen it claimed that the “no step on snek” shirts are anti-second-amendment.

    …as opposed to cutely dumbing down “don’t tread on me (and I won’t kill you)” when folks were having vapors.

    X for doubt.

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    1. There are “antifa” fists strangling a rattlesnake.

      The there are choked rattlesnakes biting the fist that tries to choke them.

      etc.

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  28. New things happen and this can cause a prior idea to be changed or embraced. 

    Repeating what has “been said before” can still create different responses as it is now being said in a different environment and under ‘new’ conditions. I have gone back over old work documents that I created and found that they applied to a current situation and I could simply add a very minor update and it was good for the current need. 

    Keep repeating and reapplying as how it works can change as the present is different and reactions can/will also be different. 

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  29. I like reiterations.

    And I use the blog posts to send out to friends and family who need /Iclarification?/I on certain points.

    Or maybe reminders. Or maybe attaboys.

    Anywho, I’m always in for a well-written rant, even if it’s something I’m already deeply conversant with.

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  30. This stuff needs to be repeated because we forget otherwise. And, you preach to the choir because that is how you get them to sing.

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  31. I shared the meme without a thought of it being attached in any way to the Palestinian conflict. If anyone thought you had any support for the barbarians they 1) don’t read you enough or 2) they are trolls trying to poke at you knowing that there would be some kind of response. Ridiculous.

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    1. These weren’t trolls, but somehow they missed all my posts on the subject, or — from what one of them said — thought I’d turned. Which is silly, but there it is.

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          1. Being gaslit is excusable, but only if no alternate info is available. It’s the fact that there *was* extensive alternate info on this subject, available to them, that makes their beliefs (and judgement) worrisome.

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