Dogs, Culture and Fights

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Let’s suppose you live with say 20 roommates. (Don’t ask, you just do.) You have a private room, but the common areas include office, living room and kitchen.

You all, by common consensus acquire a beautiful, fluffy puppy, all big eyes and eagerness to please.

The puppy does as puppies everywhere do, and goes on the carpet. You clean it up, but you don’t rub his nose in it, and don’t punish him, because well, he’s a puppy. He doesn’t know he did wrong. He’s just doing what’s natural, and it’s mean and non-Christian to punish him for doing what comes naturally.

The same applies to his tendency to nip when he gets over excited. You tell him “no” or stop playing but you don’t smack him, because he’s just a puppy. He doesn’t know any better, and he didn’t mean to draw blood.

You’re going to end up with a nightmare of a dog, unless someone else is training him properly. As Heinlein pointed out, training a puppy that way means that when he’s a full dog and uncontrollable, the only thing you can do is take him out back and shoot him. Which is a horrible way to treat a dog.

But wait, it can get worse. Suppose that the people you live with, for whatever reason, are divided into 15 who are like you, and 5 who are absolutely perverse f*cks. They like/think it’s funny to encourage the dog to go everywhere, all over the carpet, and to bite their roommates.

So when the dog poos or pees inside, they give him treats and tell him how great he is. And when he nips, they laugh, and praise him.

You’re going to end up with a nightmare, vicious dog. And your — and your other 15 friends — only alternative to hiding in your room/living up to your ankles in dog shit/getting bitten every time you try to use the common areas is to move. Only any place you move to, those 5 people — tired of living in shit and getting bitten — follow you and train your new dog the same way.

This is what our society has been like for 100 years just about. Each new puppy — each generation of young people — get trained that being leftist is a positional good that makes them BETTER and more admired. Why?

Well, because the left will praise them for being attack dogs who scat everywhere with leftist slogans and “philosophy”. That’s where the praise is, and the good jobs, etc. And they can be absolutely unfair and go after anyone they please, both officially and in social interactions. But anyone trying to retaliate runs not only into the barrage of leftists, who really don’t want anyone to teach the puppy that spreading poop all over is not a survival strategy, but into a number of “well meaning roommates” who gang up to tell the person trying to train the puppy that punishing the poor little thing for what it didn’t know was wrong is mean and evil and unchristian. Not to mention declassee. “We’re better than that!” they say. Until they run away, and try to find a place they will be left away. Which never happens, because there is no incentive for leaving people alone. Only for being an incontinent, leftist attack dog.

No one is asking you to beat the puppy to death. And you definitely shouldn’t be the one training the puppy if you have no stomach for it.

But this is the process by which we’ve got where we are.

The squeamish on our side will condemn our candidates for being “uncouth” and “mean tweets.” While their side is egging on people who dox, pile on and SWAT at the slightest sign of opposition to the craziest points of the leftist agenda.

It doesn’t take a genius to know how it ends, if you tie the hands of your fighters.

You know lead, follow or get out of the way? You don’t have to do any of that, but respectfully, stop being a sissy.

If you don’t have the stomach to fight, don’t. But stop piling live coals on the heads of those who do. Some of them hate fighting as much as you do. They just had to fight or be killed, and chose the first. Be aware if you’re trying to hamper them, you’re choosing the second. And frankly, at this point, they’re fighting for you too.

Be not afraid. You don’t have to be a lion. But don’t be a sheep.

I don’t care how much you’ve internalized the hierarchy by which only the left gets to do whatever it wants.

It’s wrong. And if it doesn’t stop, civilization itself will die.

Our fighters are not only fighting for the dissidents from the Marxist-Leninist party line. They’re also fighting for all those who never had a chance to learn any better. And for the Marxist-Leninists who don’t realize at the end of their dreams, it’s not utopia that will reign, but death.

134 thoughts on “Dogs, Culture and Fights”

  2. Loath as I am to quote Dietrich Bonhoffer (my college venerated him, and I have VERY unpleasant memories of the place):

    “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. […] Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

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    1. In the words of Rush’s “Free Will,” If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. It’s one of my mantras.

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    2. Sins of omission are sins indeed.

      May The God of Angel Armies protect us as we stand firm.

      You may not be called on to fight, but you DO have to stand firm in your convictions.

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    3. The problem with such a broad statement is that it can be used FOR evil. “Evil” has to be properly defined, as does “real.”

      Would “white privilege” be evil? Arguably, yes. Is it real? No.

      Is belief in only two genders real? Oh, yes. Is it evil? No.

      You must be sure that the “face” IS evil, AND is real, before you speak, and definitely before you act. Note that the two examples above are classic Leftist justifications for supporting racism and abuse of the mentally disturbed.

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      1. “White privilege” has devolved down to “cultural things that are only fully understood by white people, thus giving them an unconscious, automatic assist in everything that they do.”

        Given that, I don’t think that you can call it evil.

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        1. Because math, logic and physics only work for white men. The Universe Itself discriminates against women and ‘people of color’ therefore using math and logic is Eeevul.

          It’s the most comprehensive paranoid delusion imaginable.

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        2. Except that those cultural things* were fully understood by all races, up well into the 1960s.

          “Evil” would be if only whites were allowed to take advantage of them – which is actually what the race baiters claim.

          • Work an honest job, get and stay married, raise kids to be better off than yourself, go to church, don’t seek violence towards others, etc.

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          1. Actually, it’s a racist idea because the Lefties IMAGINE that non-whites are unable to do those things.

            And yes, even under the Jim Crow laws blacks were able to do those things.

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          2. You stated that white privilege would arguably be evil, if it were real. I’m pointing out that there’s no way that it could be considered as such.

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        3. Not even “… are only fully understood by white people,” so much as “… inhibit the blind dependency we want to foster among our non-white target audience.”

          Even welfare-riders in public housing projects, when they’re not stewing for the moment in race-envy self-pity, understand most all of them just fine.

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  3. “They just had to fight or be killed, and chose the second.” Ah. I think you meant first?

    Let’s see if I remember how Alexander put it: “I will not respect an army of lions led by sheep, but I will respect an army of sheep led by lions.” Well, back in 2016, a certain candidate had a security detail literally known as “the Lion Guard.” There are still promotional memes of him with a lion’s shadow.

    There are other lions in the lead. Stop tripping them and get out of the way, if you’re not going to actively help either by working in logistics/support or in the front lines! It’s not that hard and doesn’t demand very much from you. Sheesh!

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  6. Sarah,

    I already like your writing but this ranks at or near the very top of anything I have seen. Sums up all politics since history began. It just is more obvious today.

    Thanks

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  7. Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, the party of peace and tolerance has released maggots and crickets at the hotel where Netanyahu is staying here in the states.

    Non-housebroken puppies, indeed.

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    1. The question of course is how did the Jew-hating leftists get into the hotel to do it? Sounds like security for President Trump isn’t the only thing that the pro-Hamas Democrats are skimping on in the hopes a political opponent gets taken out.

      PM Netanyahu’s speech was brilliant. He used the gays for Palestine (i.e. Hamas) as being like chickens for KFC comparison in his speech. Meanwhile the crowds outside burned American flags, replaced them with Palestinian flags while wearing pro-Jihadist clothes and chanting their usual chants calling for “death to the Jews” while also chanting Allahu Akbar.

      None of this has been condemned by those Democrats who purport to be pro-Israel and opposed to antisemitism, nor will the leftists who attempted to violently enter the Capitol while burning American flags (rather than waving them like those who entered the Capitol in an orderly manner on J6) be prosecuted the way J6 protestors have been.

      https://nypost.com/2024/07/24/us-news/anti-israel-protesters-rip-down-burn-american-flag-in-dc-after-netanyahu-speech/

      In the meantime, the regime clearly telegraphing that the assassination attempt on Trump was a hoped for result by appointing Janet Napolitano to the commission that is to allegedly investigate what happened. Pretty much says in neon lit signs that allowing the opportunity for the attempt to kill Trump was sanctioned and approved of at the highest levels of those running the White House.

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      2. Wild guess: They reserved a room under a stolen ID, and brought the bugs in as baggage.

        You may have a “hollyweird” impression of dignitary protection in the real world. A visiting dignitary might get a whole floor, but not the whole hotel. Cant search folks going about their lawful business to their lawful (if temporary) residence.

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      3. BTW, where was the wheelbarrow those soldiers must have needed for their balls?

        one runs 8 miles to get to the fight because he doesn’t have a car, the other gets a limb blown off and one of his eyes trashed, and is heading back to lead a tank unit

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    1. They stupidly do not understand that, as funny as it may be to watch puppies run around and bite the others to get treats, puppies trained to do this can never, ever be trusted.

      Someone else offers a bigger treat or more pets, and TADA! your arm is off.

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      3. Bigger treat? I know of a couple who would take their older daughter’s side when the younger daughter stood up to her bullying. Now, the older daughter keeps trying to bully them. (And the younger daughter barely sees them. Indeed, they no longer take their older daughter’s side when she does visit and is bullied because it has dawned on them that that’s a factor.)

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  9. I used to occasionally visit the blogs of my leftwing coreligionists, because of a combination of anthropological curiosity and opposition research. I can’t do it anymore, I get too angry.

    I am so tired of the left. I’m tired of the way they treat their political views as self-evident truths. I’m tired of the contempt they show to everyone who doesn’t agree with them. I’m tired of their never-ending victim complex, while at the same time they have a superiority complex, insisting that history will vindicate them. I’m tired of their violence being considered as free speech and our free speech being considered as violence.

    I just want them to shut up and leave me alone and they never, never will. A civil war would catastrophically awful for me and everyone else in the United States but I’d rather die fighting than kneel to the left.

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      1. This, and how.

        It’s actually hard to try to count how many times, over this past week or two, I’ve heard/read variations of “I’m finished with trying to be fair to the Left, to understand the Left, to try to convert the Left, I’m just plain out of sh*ts to give” — from places that used to be very different.

        The new “things have changed” — and probably nowhere more clear than the rioting, vandalism, flag-burning and so on after Netanyahu’s speech today. If the Israelis had designed a misbehavior / toddler tantrum to illustrate his point, that it’s not civilization vs. civilization but civilization vs. barbarism, they couldn’t hardly have done better.

        It’s not just here at ATH. It’s more like everywhere. And something far in the back of my mind still keeps whispering “is this what the start of a preference cascade looks like?” Not an answer, a question; but still and persistently, the question.

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        1. It might be over before we get a believable warning.

          Look how fast the situation unraveled for Romania when the regime crossed the tipping point.

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        2. Yes… Romania suddenly not-under Ceaucescu, or even Italy not-under Mussolini.

          Now, assembled companions, do reflect we have this new-fangled, accelerative thing called “the Internet” — which of course they did not.

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    2. The thing that allows this agnostic to still respect religion* is that I separate the religion and the people who claim to be members of it. Thus, I do not conflate Catholicism with Nancy Pelosi, any more than I conflate woman with “Lia” Thomas.

      * Note that this respect does NOT extend to “religions” that were designed from the start simply to justify conquest, rapine, and plunder.

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      1. Same. Plus, have a look at the cultures in which that religion flourishes and the cultures that have grown out of it. I can’t summon the faith it would take to be an observant member of any religion…but I can clearly see how much our civilization owes to one major religion in particular, so I’m all-in on defending it.

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    3. It used to be much easier to listen to the leftists, but they’ve drank so much of the kool-aid now that Jim Jones is jealous. The stuff they believe is too outlandish to make good fiction anymore, yet they’re touting it as real while claiming only the Republicans believe in conspiracy theories.

      And the more actual facts come out in regards to real events that the Democrats and RINOs have been trying to cover up makes my blood pressure rise to unhealthy levels.

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      1. Cults require their wogs to repeat blatant lies as a demonstration of obedience and hive-think. The level of “outrageous” grows with time. They may or may not have an internal consistency or structure, but the root is gibberish at best.

        Kinda sounds like all sorts of leftroidisms. Also why they make natural allies of other weirdness. Like, for example, the WeirdBeard Mad Mullahs of Mayhem.

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    4. spot on Evenstar, im there, i friggin hate most of them, locally for moving here and ruining what was once paradise. Nationally for ruining what was once a great country.
      when it all comes unglued i will join with glee

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  10. The leader of Just Stop Oil was just handed a five year prison sentence, and four of his followers got four year sentences each. They’re going to eat slop and sit in a prison cell for years.

    This is how you handle this. You arrest them, try them, and put them in prison. Pretty soon people don’t do such things. A good start, long overdue.

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    1. Like the video of the American college student on vacation in Sweden. She was pulling the keffayah and bullhorn garbage on a street, “protesting” and getting underfoot. So the police showed up and … acted like European police. She was rather taken aback to discover that Swedish cops are not US college administrators. And that the Swedes don’t have a First Amendment. Oops.

      I probably enjoyed the video more than I should have. I will think shame upon myself.

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      1. IMO, the best is probably still the one where the Just Stop Oil protestor in Germany glued his hand to the asphalt in the middle of the road. So the police removed that chunk of asphalt from the road, and left it attached to his hand.

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        1. How very kind of them. I would have deployed four traffic cones closely around them and said “Good Luck in rush hour.”

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        2. I liked the one (don’t remember where it happened, but somewhere in Europe) where the protestor who did the same was simply picked up and ripped loose from the pavement, leaving a good bit of skin behind. The screams were quite satisfying. :twisted: (No, I’m not a very nice person in some ways. Deal).

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  11. While they’re in the cells deny them anything derived from oil. No heat, no air conditioning, toothbrushes made from wood and boar bristles, a pile of straw to sleep on…

    Wool underwear.

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    1. But, but, but! The wool underwear was made that way due to fossil fuel powered machinery!

      They should probably be provided with an underwear kit: sheep, stone knife (for shearing), a drop spindle, and the bare pieces of a Navajo loom. Oh, maybe a card for the fiber. (If you wanted to be extra nice, the rocks for warp weights could have predrilled holes.) Then, they can have their wool underwear.

      For extra fun, a PETA member can supervise the shearing.

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  12. Everytime I hear that Heinlein quote I think of Trayvon Martin, a nearly full grown young man who had a screamingly obvious lack of discipline and consequences growing up. Who made it to the age of 17 thinking it was OK to hit someone for following and looking at them with suspicion. He was caught red-handed with burglary tools and jewelry that clearly did not belong to him st school and the teachers & other adults around him swept it under the rug. According to his text messages he assaulted a bus driver and his own girlfriend called him “a little hooligan”. He was allowed to wander around unsupervised by parents and other authority figures after a school suspension. While doing so he assaulted a man who shot him in self-defense. I imagine his last thought was utter shock this could happen to him. And the left wondered how something so terrible could happen. 🤦‍♀️

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      1. https://www.google.com/search?q=Trayvon+Trayvoff&client=ms-android-tmus-us-rvc3&sca_esv=79fa70996e97f493&udm=2&biw=384&bih=696&sxsrf=ADLYWIJbvGiBEgTROv9tmTwwJgw6nYT9lA%3A1721870884838&ei=JKqhZvbnMuLekPIPyKLg-QU&oq=Trayvon+Trayvoff&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIhBUcmF5dm9uIFRyYXl2b2ZmMggQABiABBiiBDIIEAAYgAQYogQyCBAAGIAEGKIESLYeULMJWMUWcAF4AJABAJgBbaAB8AKqAQM0LjG4AQPIAQD4AQGYAgagApMDmAMAiAYBkgcDNS4xoAeCCQ&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#vhid=fR4lAlympGSh3M&vssid=mosaic

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    2. “Weed smokers are nonviolent.”

      “Weed does not induce paranoia and/or hallucination.”

      Must have been the Skittles.

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      2. There was a black comedian who came out on stage and said “weed smokers are non-violent? Man, the most violent MF’ers I know smoke a *lot* of weed.” to cheers and applause.

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  13. On the Ghibli subreddit, I just saw a posting by a 7th grade English teacher who wanted to know if one could show 7th graders Grave of the Fireflies.

    Then it turned out that this teacher had already scheduled the kids to do a unit “discussing WW2,” which included reading the following works:

    The novel Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac, which is all about childhood trauma in a boarding school

    The autobiography Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, which is about childhood trauma in a camp

    And then she wants to talk about the childhood trauma of being on the wrong side of WW2, with Grave of the Fireflies, where everybody starves to death.

    And then, people wonder why teenagers kill themselves.

    Seventh grade is terrible enough.

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    1. Dear Lord have mercy on those poor kids. They’d probably have less trauma if they read With the Old Breed, and it’s not pretty at all. (A Marine in the Pacific’s account of the early years of the conflict.)

      I do use scenes from Porco Roso when I teach about the Fascists, because it gives a sense of how all-enveloping Fascism tried to be, but I teach high school.

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      1. With The Old Breed remains one of the most graphic and disturbing accounts of the war in the Pacific that I’ve ever read. Without context, one could get the wrong impression of Sledge and his buddies.

        Which means it would fit right in with Farewell to Manzanar.

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      2. Yeah, why is an English teacher pushing left-wing politics? Her job is teaching them to read, which our government schools are failing at. Watching a video won’t teach them to read. Unless it’s in Japanese with subtitles, but she almost certainly wants to show the dubbed version.

        I’ve seen ‘Grave Of The Fireflies’. Even bought the disk on sale. It’s a masterpiece, but so grindingly depressing I’ll probably never watch it again. Inflicting it on 12 year olds is cruel and unusual.

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        2. Yeah, why is an English teacher pushing left-wing politics? 

          Alas, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the American “educational” system.

          It was never about education. That’s just the happy face they slapped over a brutal indoctrination system.

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        3. Because she was probably taught that way in Ed school and *does not realize,* it’s both leftist and demoralizing. It’s just “the material you should use,” pushed by a study guide…and why should she mistrust the educational authorities?

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          1. I believe you’ve noted the root of the problem. Just as it’s idiocy to believe there’s such a thing as a “manager” and it’s irrelevant whether he understands the work of the people he’s managing (almost Holy Writ in some corporations), it’s a travesty to have “Education” degrees per se. Some of my best and most productive classes in getting my EE degree were taught by practicing engineers, mathematicians and physicists, not by “educators”.

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      3. My Dad was mostly deaf after too many years aroung jet engines, before hearing protection was really a thing. I wound up going to some parent-teacher meetings with him with my youngest sister’s teachers.

        One of them just mumbled in some kind of patois; I couldn’t make out what she was saying either. She got angrier every time we asked her to repeat herself, until she raised herself up in her chair and shouted “AH GOTS DE DEGRIH EN EEENLISH!”

        Dad looked at her, looked at me, and said “I’m sure she does.” And I followed him as he went out the door.

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    3. 7th grade should be reading Number the Stars, and wossname, that book about the Norwegian patriots, or Mazer’s book about lying about your age and joining the Army Air Corps.

      Savages

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      1. Is that the story about the Norwegian kids smuggling gold bars on their sleds and burying them under snowmen to keep the Nazis from getting ahold of them? British boat commandoes sneak ashore in the night to dig up the bars and take them away.

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        1. Maybe? All except the British commandos.

          Brain just unlocked: It is Snow Treasure. Shadow on the Mountain is okay, too.

          My best friend’s grunkle Thor was second mate on the Norwegian gold boat that came to the U.S.

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          1. Sounds right. Been about 50 years since I read it so some of the details could be a bit fuzzy. I remember the Nazis demanded to know why the kids weren’t in school, so they painted mercurochrome dots on their faces to fake a measles outbreak.

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          2. Father of a childhood freind was formerly Dutch Underground. The “letter opener” on his desk set was a crudely-ground-down K98 bayonet, wikkid sharp.

            Quiet, mild-mannered dude of below average stature. In a movie, that nebbish bank teller.

            He whacked Nazis to obtain firearms for older Resistance. A -bunch-.

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            2. Back in the day at an Air Force Dining Out (is that a proper noun?), we had this nice old lady speak.

              She was British Intelligence in France during WWII.

              I learned something from her: Always slice throats from behind; it keeps the blood off you. Yikes!

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    4. In the 1960s we were supposed to read “Earth Abides” and “A Town Called Alice.” I took the F rather than finish that drivel.

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  14. Consequences. How many spite-posters [family blog, I know] and others would moderate their garbage if they knew that they could get a fist in the nose for their vitriol and attacks? Too many people seem to live in a version of reality that has no consequences for anything – unprotected nookie, insulting people, hitting at people, not doing the work yourself. And when the Gods of the Copybook Headings do show up, these people can’t believe it. How dare reality intrude?

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    1. “How many spite-posters [family blog, I know] and others would moderate their garbage if they knew that they could get a fist in the nose for their vitriol and attacks?”

      “Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing”-Robert E. Howard

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    2. My sole experience with Rude Persons Online whom I then met face to face….was telling.

      Dude spent his FB time breathing vitriol against conservatives. Recommending they be given dirt naps, that kind of thing. I objected to his rhetoric and he proceeded to attack me PERSONALLY, telling lies about how we’d met (we had) and how I had done [rude fictional thing] at that meeting. I blocked him.

      Some time later, we met again at the wedding of a mutual acquaintance. Mister Spiteposting suddenly turned into Caspar Q. Milquetoast in person. He complimented my HAIR. (Which I ignored, having decided on the Cut Direct.)

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      1. Sometimes, all you have to do to win the battle is show up with your game face on.

        Which occasionally works better with a smile.

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          1. The Reader wonders if it is really a baboon. It appears to him to be a Boeing supply chain manager in dialogue with a supplier. He could be wrong of course.

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    1. Can confirm. And this is why I will never have a dog.

      I’ll note here that some abusers will deliberately create an unmanageable dog specifically because it then keeps all the rest of the household exhausted and afraid, and thus easier to control and abuse.

      Some of them will do this with one or more of their children, too, to deliberately terrorize whichever of their kids/spouse is The Unfavorite.

      …And I’m going to stop here before I have to scream. Bad memories. Very bad.

      Long story short: our hostess is dead-on with this one.

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    2. That’s one reason I carried a sidearm while mowing the yard when we had a particularly nasty pack of neighbors. Their poorly-socialized pack of pit bulls would occasionally make it through the fence and do the attack dance. The pits never bit, but one of their little mongrels did. Even little dog bites have to be treated. I figured it might give the pits bad ideas, so I started carrying.

      The dogs didn’t know any better, and it infuriated me that I might have to kill them while the people who made them that way would avoid any punishment.

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      1. A couple of years ago we were doing volunteer work on a widow lady’s double wide out in the country. The neighbor had a mother-litter set of pits and one lunch break mother and son wandered over. No problem, except Sonny inhaled my beloved’s sandwich while he was looking another way. The owner apologized and tried to give us money to pay for another sandwich.

        Example of relatively well-trained dogs…

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  16. Judging by the chaos in the capitol caused by the Hamas wing of the Democratic Party, you’d better start being uncouth, fast.

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    1. I really thought they would wait until after the election to get all riot-like.

      Time is speeding up.

      Might be time to keep your self defense mechanisms where you can find them in the daylight.

      And the dark.And, also, pray.

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      1. The Reader thinks it is a sign that the powers behind the useful idiots in the Democratic party and also behind the Hamas loving rioters have decided that loosing chaos is better than pushing Kneepads across the line in an election, no matter how crooked. He fears it means they believe they have achieved all they can at the ballot box. Your admonitions about self defense mechanisms is well heeded. And prayers.

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        1. You’re assuming it’s a decision. I think they don’t have enough control for such a decision. I think they summoned up what they can’t put down, and now the djinni is loose and refusing to go back in the bottle, and is just tearing around causing havoc while its erstwhile masters flail fruitlessly trying, and failing, to get it under control. What possible benefit could they obtain from the desecration of all those monuments in DC? No, I’d say this week’s rioting goes a long way to demonstrate that they have lost control of their pet mob.

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            1. That’s the perpetual problem with mobs: Once you call up the mob it does what it wants to do; what you want is irrelevant.

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          2. Now imagine what they’ll do if Trump wins.

            Like we said in October 2020: “Stores are not boarding up their windows because of what MAGA would do if Trump loses.”

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            1. But imagine the ratings if they did, 100% propaganda 100% of the time and no “real” event anywhere at all to hang it on.

              Could be positively neo-Disney-esque.

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  17. I just got a notice in the mail telling me that under the Kalifornia Voters Choice Act, every registered voter is being mailed a ballot. So the Voters Choice Act means I can’t choose not to receive a fraud-by-mail ballot.

    They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.

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  18. Yesterday someone put up an AI art (looked like Midjourney, but boy, am I not an expert) portraying Harris as some hybrid of Ms. Marvel and Captain America. Today, multiple publications are huffing, “Those right-wingers call her the ‘border czar.’ This is not true!” In other words, they’re going full Soviet.

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    1. Yes, as others have noted, Axios had to issue a hasty correction to their original story years ago in which she was called a “border czar”, because she never received any such actual title for the responsibility she was given to deal with the border.

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    2. Saw that picture.

      Had to wonder, “now, is she a superhero, or a supervillain dressed up as a hero to sneak behind enemy lines?”

      Then realized, that’s exactly what the Propaganda Press is doing…

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    3. I made fun of it at the time, saying “So they’re portraying her as the most unlikeable superhero in the MCU? Got it.” (I thought at the time it was meant to be Ms. Marvel; I didn’t see Captain America in it).

      I didn’t even notice the guy in the background with an arm growing out of his head until after I posted. It felt kind of like that “Did you see the dancing bear/gorilla?” video.

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  20. Have we moved on from the Kristi Noem jokes?
    Harris/Noem ’24: They can keep Joe’s dog.

    Hey, it would get the votes of the Fauci fans.

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  21. Now, in the original post’s fable, imagine that the 15 people who think it’s “funny” to train up a “just gotta shoot it” dog are lying around being “the Devil’s playground” like that because they’re all on some form of Guaranteed Minimum Income — they quite literally don’t have anything better or more productive to do, than make up and perpaetrate crazy evil nonsense like that.

    Somehow, at least for me, that focuses the point even a bit clearer.

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      1. Not sure if the typo was in the hand or the head, but yes. 25% is about right, that or even just a touch less.

        Compare, though, the “how many do you need for a successful revolution if they’re really good at that?” Likely rather less than even those, though I am counting “tooth” not “tail.” (And in an American-style case, to fix things, not a lefty Communist-style case to mess things up worse.)

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  22. There is a serious question as to what is a reasonable & effective thumping vs what is excessive and counter-productive. Or in New Testament terms (Not my circus, not my native language, but something others here speak): When should you turn the other cheek, and when is it time to break out the whip and kick over the tables?

    I never understood the aversion to “mean tweets,” especially given what is said under the banner of “Politics ain’t beanbag.” But certain exercises in lawfare make me twitch, and “‘Shut up’ they explained” strikes me as a strong candidate for the worst argument ever, even (or especially) when deployed in support of a position I favor.

    Or to put it in terms more in my wheelhouse, what does a “decent respect for the opinions of mankind” require of us?

    And this four-step by the other side doesn’t help:

    1. Take a respected custom, reasonable policy, or desirable reform
    2. Poison it
    3. Weaponize it
    4. Wave its stiffened carcass in the air as a banner, while demanding compliance

    (riffing off David Burge)

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  23. K is one of those dogs. It is clear that she already believes she is the President, and she has the example of.. her predecessors to show her that the President can do anything she wants, without regard to law.

    She has no skill in diplomacy or negotiation, and international relations are not only a mystery, they simply don’t exist in her mind. All she can do is make messes. Worse, she is convinced of her own superiority.

    I’m afraid she’ll take a major misstep and remedial training will be administered by the international community.

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    1. As long as the remedial training is restricted to no more than 25kT, and restricted to a single application in the DC metro area, I wouldn’t exactly like it but I could probably live with it. :twisted:

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  24. I may have stepped in it, or this may be a topic for a post. Vance said something about “childless women,” and now there’s a chorus of, “This is an insult to all infertile women. Even my Trump supporting friends are outraged that he could be so cruel. This is cruel and thoughtless. Etc.”

    I commented that his remarks weren’t aimed at the infertile, but at those women who are proudly, “Childless by Choice!”, are active in progressive causes and look down on women who want children. I was informed (by someone with a male handle who is normally rather level-headed), “If you haven’t been infertile you can’t understand.”

    To be fair to him, he’s taking the, “Attack Harris’s policy, don’t attack her followers,” tack and posting a sign saying, “Crazy Cat Ladies for Harris,” as an example of a successful counterattack.

    But somehow, I just don’t see how attacking one subset of women is attacking all women. I guess I’m just Odd.

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    1. Someone in the comments used Fifty Shades of Grey vs Ringo’s Ghost novels as comparisons of female vs male novels.

      🤣🤣

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      1. Ugh. I watched two of those movies to see what all the hype was about. I kept thinking, “It’s got to get better, right? Got to.”

        It didn’t.

        Now if somebody was to make movies out of the Ghost/Kildar books, I’d watch the shit out of those. As long as they did a good job. And, maybe, push most of the S&M stuff offstage.

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    3. I’m never again going to read a book with a sex scene in it without checking the sex of the author. I’ve never paid any attention, but those are pretty much the two styles.

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