The Despicable Lords of Utopia

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

I have to confess that for a while now I’ve been reading the lefty laments on the election with every measure of enjoyment.

Listening to them rage, howl, and throw themselves on the floor screaming that those d*mn disobedient peasants voted for Trump for “the price of eggs! They voted for eggs!” is comedy gold when you look at it from the POV of the lefty planners and strategists really being spider creatures from Alpha Centauri who landed yesterday and are trying to understand humanity.

On the other hand, a young friend also laughing at them unearthed something that took that enjoyment and strangled it, and shoved it down my throat to become absolute and utter unreasoning anger. This post is the result of that.

What my friend first posted in a private group was this:

Guys guys
I just learned the most hilarious term
“Treatler”
It’s about people willing to overlook Travesty and Injustice and Racism because they like their “treats”
…like they literally made up a term for “liking nice things makes you Hitler”

She — younger than I so less prone to yell at the sky, I guess, thought this was hilarious, and went diving for more of the insanity. And found it.

(Vague recollection of nice things being “treats”–unimportant, antisocial–was this unhinged Twitter discussion years ago about … I think it was year-round bananas being listed as “treats” people would have to do without to combat climate change)

From UrbanDictionary:
Coined by left-wing twitter, “Treatler” is used to describe people whose extent of political ambition is about their selfish want of fulfilling their consumerist desires, even at the cost of lives.
Guy 1: Who do you plan on voting for in the coming election?

Guy 2: I think i’ll vote for Mr.Smith. I know he said those things about how he wishes to genocide minorities, but he said he will make gas 15 cents cheaper by the end of his term.

Guy 1: You’re such a fucking Treatler.

And this is where I went insane. In fact, this is where I went Librarian Poo!

Look, ignore the stuff about the candidate saying he wishes to genocide minorities. Anyone who has been through a couple of election cycles knows the left says that about anyone who opposes them, regardless of if the person, him/herself is a minority. In fact, of course, it is the left once its regime is firmly established that always sets about exterminating and running down minorities. (No? Ask what it’s like to be gay in Cuba, what it was like to be black or Jewish in the USSR, what it’s still like to be gay in Venezuela, or for that matter what it was like to live in a black neighborhood in the US during the hot enthusiasm for St. Floyd of Fentanyl.) What are they really saying?

They’re saying that someone wanting to be able to afford necessities like gas, or wanting to buy a little extra — bananas! BANANAS! for the love of holy frig! — with the money THEY EARN AND WORK FOR is wanting “treats.”

As though the vast majority of working people were some kind of toddler under the care of a benevolent kindergarten teachers, waiting for “treats” for good behavior.

What the actual tri-plated, reinforced, damned gal of these would be aristos! TREATS?

Eggs, aren’t treats. Affordable gas isn’t a treat. Bananas aren’t treats. They’re the basic building blocks of a decent life and decent nutrition made possible for the working man and woman by free trade, innovations in transportation and drilling, and manufacturing. They’re the earned fruits of civilization built by our forefathers and foremothers with insane work, the sweat of their brow and ingenuous innovation.

They’re not the aristos to give or withhold. They are not — or should not be — under the control of any unelected bureaucrat and they should not be restricted or affected by any precious regulation, no matter if the people who came up with it thought that doing it would bring about utopia.

“Climate change” is not an excuse to restrict people’s access to have they have earned should be able to buy in any sane system. The people’s PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, which, yes, includes full bellies and a sweet treat now and then, shall not be impaired. Other things that aren’t a sufficient excuse for government to restrict people’s liberty to buy what they can afford include but are not limited to: inequality, redistribution, racism, and “its would be nice.”

In fact, it is the Lords of Despair, the purveyors of Utopian pap who are the toddlers, screaming and rolling on the floor, demanding that others do what the toddlers say or they’ll hold their breaths till they turn blue, or scream for endless hours on Bluesky and the like, and sneer at us with a mighty sneer.

And no matter the reasons they say they want to deny the population these “treats” — TREATS, could they have come up with a more infantile name? What a window to their infantile worldview and the infantilization they wish on the rest of us? — the true reason is because they want to be the only ones who have these things, and therefore be special. They want to be the favorite students of kindergarten teacher government, and get all the gold stars and be able to preen and act special.

This is because they know at their heart they are the least useful and creative people imaginable. They demand privileges and a pedestal because they know anyone on the street is better than the yawning chasm that passes for the soul they sold to the gods of envy.

Well, since they’ve never studied history and have a sketchy grasp on linguistics, let me point out Utopia means “No place.” And in fact, every place they have attempted to install this “utopia” of their has turned to hell on Earth.

It’s time and more than enough to shove the utopian aristos aside (From how high, and with what strength you shove them is a decision I will stay out of) and allow people to enjoy the blessings of liberty.

People are voting for their own self-interest. Of such things is civilization created. Because no one knows what each person wants or needs than that person. No philosopher, no king, certainly no bureaucrat can guess or decide such things for the individual. In fact, the very system of voting is based on the thought that each individual knows his own interests best and should be allowed to have a say in governance to preserve them.

Yes, it is licit, what’s more, it is highly moral to vote for a candidate because you think he/she will make eggs and gas cheaper, jobs more abundant, bananas easier to buy. The ultimate goal of any human civilization is long-lived, healthy seniors and lots of fat and happy babies. Only those allow us to build and improve, and reach ever forward so the species shall not be extinct.

Anything that stands in the way of that is an evil not to be countenanced.

So, go ahead, you shit-headed aristos. Go ahead, call me a treatler.

In return I will call you what you are: You are an unserious utopian, a too-early-weaned toddler rolling on the floor of kindergarten, demanding the other kids give back those gold stars, because onlyyyy you deserve them!

Or if you prefer, you are a cankerous worm fallen from the rotten ass of Karl Marx, and if given your way you will turn all of the Earth as dismal, sterile and dead as that thing you call a soul.

It’s time you were told the only place you get to rule is no place. It’s time your rolling around screaming were stopped and you got a good spanking.

If you’re very lucky, the spanking won’t be administered with a tire iron.

214 thoughts on “The Despicable Lords of Utopia”

  1. Look, ignore the stuff about the candidate saying he wishes to genocide minorities.

    Intermarriage is genocide, per them, thus folks who are literally married to a minority who are a member of a different group…..

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    1. Yup. If I – as a SWM – were to marry any minority, I would either be committing genocide, or I would see my wife (and any kids) purely as a political prop. Depending on the left’s needs of the moment.

      Of course, note that it’s not limited to that. There are tweets that periodically find their way into my X feed claiming similar “genocide” tactics directed against whites, often as part of a claimed Jewish conspiracy.

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      1. It’s also used as a reason to dismiss a minority who doesn’t have The Approved Viewpoint.

        They’re a product of genocide, you see.

        :waves hand in very healthy product of genocide by honorable marriage:

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        1. I.E., Hispanic men after this election. They are no longer an oppressed “Latinx” minority, in fact liberals hope they all get deported back to Mexico even if they’re American citizens and not from Mexico.

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          3. It depends. Here in California, they’re still hoping that they can rely on the Hispanics as “immigrants” and use them against Trump.

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    3. Oh, it goes past that. Not mutilating children is genocide of the trans. Nevermind that the entire point of defining “genocide” was to treat massacre of groups as worse than massacre of an equal number of people who did not belong to the same group.

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      1. :grumbles in failures of scifi:
        I’m still annoyed that nobody has actually done the “stunning and brave” thing of something like “is it wrong to kill Lobo?” (DC universe, he’s the last of his species. … because he killed the rest of them, so he’d be unique.) Technically, it’s genocide.

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        2. Yes… and no…

          It’s Lobo. He literally can’t be killed. I think there’s a general awareness of this among the more informed individuals in DC. And in any case, pretty much everyone is aware that messing with “The Main Man” is a very bad idea. Fortunately for most everyone, last I’d heard he’d decided he’s a pacifist.

          Also, for a while every drop of his blood would grow into a clone of him (with some slight genetic variation). So, instant population. I don’t think he has that ability anymore, though. And at one point all of his clones got the not so bright idea of trying to kill him. Since they didn’t have his immortality, the end result was a foregone conclusion.

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      2. I’d argue the point of defining genocide was to say “killing because of group identity is not a valid cause.” (which is a reasonable thing to need to point out, given human history)

        The shifting of definition for genocide to be “effect on group thus bad” is perverse and as described, though.

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        1. That may have been what they professed, but the actual reason was to define Nazi mass murder as worse than Communist mass murder.

          It is a foolish distinction. Technically the Holodomor can not be proven to be a genocide, but that could change with the discovery of a single document stating they were going after the Ukrainians as such. Would that actually change the moral calculus of the Holodomor?

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              1. You’re assuming your conclusion.

                You have failed to deal with the specific reasons given– targeting by demographic being morally illegitimate– and your claimed reason for mind-reading would not reach your stated goal.

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                1. Mass murder already being morally illegitimate, what point is there in making fine distinctions among the murderers’ motivations? Whether stated by the murderers themselves, or inferred/projected by outside observers?

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                  1. Among other reasons, “we bombed the f out of that Japanese region because it was stuffed full of bomb factories” is very different from “we killed every male Filipino on the islands because they are male Filipinos.”

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                    2. The slaughter of males in the Philippines was the Japanese. They are not bound by what you find morally binding or not.

                      Most people– baring maybe one one, and that’s arguable– aren’t.

                      So people have to hash out what their moral beliefs are, one way or another. Generally, talking is considered a good starting point.

                      Welcome to English.

                      We have words for specific kinds of killing.

                      Dude noticed a linguistic gap for the “motivated by removal of demographic,” and made a word for it.

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                2. Your claim that mind-reading is needed to explain that people carefully defined the Holodomor out of the definition does not hold water.

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                  1. Besides the fact that you still haven’t justified “but I can read their hearts” for overruling the actual arguments made and accepted…..

                    Mary, could you please at least LOOK UP who invented a modern term before you get on these tirades about what their motives were?

                    Dude was a Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin.

                    He defined it as “”a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.”

                    He also wrote this:

                    “SOVIET GENOCIDE IN THE UKRAINE”
                    By Raphael Lemkin (1953)

                    Click to access RaphaelLemkin_1953.pdf

                    Source: Raphael Lemkin Papers, The New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Astor,
                    Lenox and Tilden Foundation, Raphael Lemkin ZL-273. Reel 3. Published in L.Y. Luciuk (ed),
                    Holodomor: Reflections on the Great Famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine (Kingston: The Kashtan Press, 2008).

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                    1. When Joe Bully (who beats up kids who do better than him in history class) say it is very wrong of Tom Ruffian to beat up kids who do better than he does in math class — NO ONE CARES where he got his claims.

                      Especially when his source does not use it the same way. The legal international definition of genocide does not include the Holodomor. Thus, sane people consider not Lemkin but Stalin as the person responsible.

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                    2. :points, again, that Mary’s arguing with the guy who invented the word being discussed, whose motives she so willingly provided before, and walks off:

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                    3. Notice that I explicitly talked about the people who defined the word (in international law), and explicitly pointed out that they were different than the guy who she was invoking.

                      Lots of people have defined lots of terms. Lots of those terms have been adopted in general use under different definitions.

                      But for some reason, she gets to claim the opposite.

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  2. Hm. Call them a “screaming toddler” or “cancerous tape worm”? Choices.

    First time I’ve heard the phrase “treatler”.

    FWIW. Hubby had me tape the View Nov. 6., just for popcorn worthy watching as they had their melt downs. Don’t think he’s ever watched it. I haven’t. Besides the Five had snatches of the View, and Gutfield!, that they picked apart, pointed and laughed at, so why bother.

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  3. You missed a trick, Sarah. What was that? Well, those who have the money to buy their “treats” no matter which cabal of incompetents is in power are inherently virtuous, because they don’t need to vote for “treats.” Think here of, not just the Bezos’ and Zuckerbergs of the world, but of people with well-paid sinecures in DEI, ESG, and Academia. You see, they _deserve_ their “treats” because they can be counted on to vote “the right way” (Marca Registrada).

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  4. It sounds like they read Asimov’s The Caves of Steel and thought the Cities were an ideal to be striven for, where people work as they’re assigned and in return have everything doled out to them as privileges that can be retracted as the higher-ups deem appropriate.

    It was the first adult book (in the sense of “written for grown-ups”) that I read, and if I thought it was our future, I thought of it as something to be endured, not something wonderful to be sought.

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    1. I rather like those first three books as “mysteries set in a foreign land” stories. Similar to, but not quite as oppressive as, <b>Gorky Park</b>, and <b>Fatherland</b>, or the James McClure <i>Kramer and Zondi series</i> set in South Africa. Never would I choose to live in any of those cultures though.

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  5. So, even granting a few rather dubious premises, is it better to be a “treatler” or a “no-treatler” — to be one voting for more of the good things in life, or one of those trying to deny those good things to others (by taking them away “like candy from a baby”) — but not themselves?

    Note here that “dubious premises” include at a minimum the “economy / GDP is a fixed pie” fallacy, and the “all things produced are the common property of the human collective” fallacy / conceit. With likely a goodly spicing of the “expert class knows best” conceit, a.k.a. industrial-era technofeudalism.

    The leftist worldview shows signs of imminently imploding into a political and philosophical black hole. (And I mean even more so than Marxism is / always was.)

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    1. At the very least, they are hemorrhaging more believers by the hour. I hope and pray it will be enough to finally consign this awful heresy to the dustbin of history. But in the short term, I will settle for the fact that a LOT of people are finally waking up and realizing that the left really HAS dropped their masks, and that they have always been like this, and they want to get the hell away from those monsters. (Not to mention the fact that even a fairly indoctrinated lefty who isn’t wealthy notices the high prices of necessities, and definitely couldn’t avoid the fact that their so-called betters were lecturing them about how things weren’t REALLY that expensive and REALLY it was all sunshine and roses)

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      3. But chlorine trifluoride is noted for its particularly indiscriminate nature. It will burn things that any rational oxidizing agent would regard as already burnt.

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  7. The part that sends me into a black flaming rage is where basic necessities (gas, food) are flippantly trivialized as “treats”.

    The subtext that *I* am getting from this is “eat your gruel, peasant, and stop bothering your betters”.

    My Aged Mother is worried about food supply now. It takes a lot to get through her normalcy bias and obsessive focus on the neighbors.

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      1. My wages have actually gone up a decent amount over the past two years, but the simple price of groceries has wiped them out and more. So… yeah.

        (Particularly galling when allergies mean “cheap” protein like eggs and beans/rice combo are not possible, because I’d wind up very, very sick.)

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    2. Same.

      I wonder how the particular person(s) who think this clap-trap would fair having to live off whatever they can themselves grow/raise in their 800 square foot apartment? Of course, they’d probably love living off the cockroaches they can catch.

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      1. Oh no. THEY wouldn’t be the ones eating cockroaches that’s for the icky wrongthink peasants. (Most of them fail to realize that, if they weren’t shoved down to serf level by their masters, they’d be among the first against the wall come the glorious revolution by those self-same “masters”)

        Remember: none of these people appear to have even a passing acquaintance with logic, and their relationship with reality is fuzzy at best.

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    3. It makes one dream of a Romanian Christmas, just like Ceaușescu used to know. [Briefly]

      The DNC tweet about “you’re whining about the price of eggs” was interesting, though I wonder how many synapses were used to get that on line. Two?

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    4. These are the same people who will blame any price increase on “corporate greed” and get self-righterously worked up on behalf those poor victims of said “corporate greed”.

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      1. Even though the actual cause is government greed. They get all worked up about stores ‘price gouging’ with their 1% – 2% profit margins when sales tax is 7.75%.

        Speaking of eggs, they’re back up to $5 a dozen again.

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  8. It hits me as being worse than toddlers: they see the common folk as pets. And pets must be disciplined and controlled “for their own good,” up to and including involuntary sterilization.

    I don’t think so. And I am so freaking tired of being manipulated.

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        1. The Left really want to go back to the feudal system with them as the landed gentry. They don’t realize that the onset and growth of the middle class forever changed the landscape. On top of that add the USA where people can move through relatively freely through the economic classes. They’re the old money types complaining about the Nouveau Riche . It is part of why they hate Trump so much he has shown that you CAN switch economic classes bigly :-) .

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          1. They’re also by-and-large themselves Nouveau Riche who detest anyone who got there first or (worse!) “didn’t earn it” because his parents earned it for him. And then they play Gentry to snub those coming behind who threaten to better themselves before these “worthies” kick the ladders down.

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    2. Not pets–livestock, to be cared for until they are sacrificed for the good of the farmer. And yes, involuntary sterilization, sale or slaughter are all on the table. Only the breeding stock is kept over the winter.

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  9. Bravo Sarah. I particularly enjoyed “a cankerous worm fallen from the rotten ass of Karl Marx, and if given your way you will turn all of the Earth as dismal, sterile and dead as that thing you call a soul.”

    These people deserve no attention, no serious consideration.

    Pompous, arrogant degenerates.

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  11. I don’t blame you for getting incandescently angry at this. It pissed me off bigly. But it is SO on point for their “all of you people are icky peasants, learn your place” attitude that, thankfully, lost them this election. I hope they keep being noisy about it, so people don’t fall for their BS again any time soon.

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    1. This is one reason I re-read “The Gulag Archipelago” on a regular basis. So I can read about allllll the party functionaries who lived high on the hog until they ended up as zeks in the camps and constantly wrote petitions and pleas to Comrade Stalin. “If only Comrade Stalin knew!” Oh, he knew, babushka. He knew VERY well.

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      1. Mao did it, as well. But…

        1.) Everyone knew that Mao was the one responsible for that individual ending up in the camps. There were no entreaties to Mao, because he publicly sent them there.

        2.) Mao tended to treat it more as a temporary exile to the hinterlands. Someone would get sent to the reeducation camp. And then when they came back, they would be slotted into the party apparatus.

        It appears to have been the method that Mao chose to humiliate his potential rivals and critics, as well as a way to remind everyone that he was still the boss.

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        1. During the Great Leap Forward, or the Cultural Revolution? Because the two were somewhat different in how those within the Party were treated if they objected to or criticized something. (Note that it’s been a while since I plowed through those topics, so my memory may be overwriting one with the other.)

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          1. During the Great Leap Forward, when famine was running rampant, opposition solidified explicitly because of the famine, and was united enough that Mao couldn’t just casually get rid of everyone involved. So he backed off. The Cultural Revolution was quite literally Mao reasserting himself as the head of the CCP, and the country itself. Therefore, it was aimed explicitly at many of the upper echelon members of the party, who had opposed Mao due to the famine, and forced him to end the Great Leap Forward.

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            1. I worked for a short time with someone who had been through the Cultural Revolution. His mother denounced his father, an engineering college professor. His father was sent to the jungles in southern china near vietnam, I think. He chose to go with his father rather than stay with his mother.

              They cleared jungle for farm land with machetes. (This was as successful as clearing the Amazon for farmland….that is, not at all). His father continued his education during and after work. When Mao died, his father was rehabilited….made thr head of engineering at one of the surviving universities. After spending years in the jungle learning while he cleared land, sitting in a classroom and studying was easy. He got accepted into grad school in the US. He was allowed to go. His father told him to seek asylum and not worry about him. He did.

              How I learned this was….he was always early. One morning he was more than an hour late and disheveled. I asked him if traffic was bad. He said no, there had been a snake in his driveway and he spent an hour beating it to death.

              This led to him explaining about the exile and how every morning the guards had to come knock the poisoness snakes off the mosquito hammocks they slept under. They were thick enough no light got through and if one bit you while trying to push them off you would die. They slept in hammocks in the open.

              So he really hated snakes.

              Just to make it longer, we had a discussion about snakes that led to wildlife.

              Where he lived had been farmland edging onto wildlands five years earlier in Virginia. We talked snakes of Virginia…he had killed a blacksnake. Harmelss and useful as it eats voles and rats. He hadnt realized it was raccoons that were tipping his garbage cans.

              After more talk, he said that except for outlying areas such as where he had been, in China, the onky animals most were familiar with were dogs and cats and wild birds. Farmers knew various domesticated animals. Wild ones especially predators were extinct in most of China. Worse than Europe or the US.

              I suggested he get a book on wild animals of Virginia and one for North America from the book store. He hadnt realized that was possible.

              He did. We each changed projects shortly after and I never saw him again.

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              1. One of the ladies at church survived the Killing Fields. She talked about it once during a ladies session one weekend several years ago. My wife said just listening to her talk about it was one of the most traumatic experiences she has ever had.

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          2. In the book “Wild Swans” (required reading for one of my college classes) the author noted that the difference between her father and those who were eventually “rehabilitated” was that the ones who were rehabilitated did not voice any criticism of Mao himself.

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            1. Even today, the CCP doesn’t dare go any further than to say that Mao was “70% correct” – i.e. only 30% of the things that he did were mistakes. There are culturally-based mental blocks in much of the population that make saying any more than this a problem.

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              1. When Huai Flowers Bloom: Stories of the Cultural Revolution by Shu Jiang Lu is a good look at a lower-level version. It’s also about telling stories.

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      1. I have high hopes of this, especially as we are now a month out from the election, and almost NONE of them appear to have realized why they lost, and are instead doubling down on their moonbat rhetoric.

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  12. I was going to chide you, Sarah, for not showing the proper seasonal attitude. Then I recalled that Saint Nicholas was also known for bringing switches, and later coal, to naughty children. I refrained from my ill-considered criticism.

    Some people deserve Santa. Some people deserve Krampus.

    Oh, we need a little Krampus, /especially on campus …

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    1. Up in Nicea the bishops pause
      Arius and Santa Claus!
      One claims a time when the son was not;
      One says that’s an heretical thought.
      Ho! Ho! Ho!
      Who’s gonna go?
      Ho! Ho! Ho!
      Who’s gonna go?
      Off with a right hook, good St. Nick!
      Down goes the dirty heretic.

      (Also, do I have your email? I want to send you a meme!)

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      1. I posted this a few days ago, and one of my Catholic friends said it was the first time she’d heard that story. But she *had* heard the one about the dismembered kids in pickle barrels, so it’s kind of surprising she’d never heard the second most famous story about the Bishop of Myra.

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      2. You’ve got it somewhere, but to spare you the archaeological excavation of your e-mail inboxes, it’s (properly veiled):

        firstname at firstnamelastname dot com

        And watch that spelling!

        (Also: fourth-century carols! What’s not to love?)

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      3. Did you write that, Sarah? I love it!!!

        Sadly there is no actual evidence for this story…. But it is the thought that counts, in legends, and it helps people remember the issues at the Council.

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    3. Actually, coal could be a godsend to a poor family in winter. Remember the Berlin Airlift. Most of the tonnage was coal.

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    4. A question on Krampus. Until the movie of the same name a few years ago, I had never heard of a Krampus. This despite reading every bit of SF, fantasy, and history inckuding histories of various christmas traditions.

      Has anyone(s) here.heard of Krampus growing up?

      This goes along with never hearing about the female comouters subject of Hidden Figures until the movie came out.

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      1. I heard about Krampus when I was young. He wasn’t a thing in my family, or in the families of anyone else I knew. It was something that was part of the holiday tradition over in Europe (specifically Scandinavia, iirc).

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  13. “If you’re very lucky, the spanking won’t be administered with a tire iron.”

    I laughed out loud at this because I have been known, in some venues, to suggest that adjustment with a tire iron is the only logical way to proceed.

    Example: “You know that Tombstone pizza commercial, where the kid says ‘whatever’ to his mother but then goes outside and dances like he has squirrels in his pants? I want to hit that kid with a tire iron.” (DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT ACTUALLY WANT TO HIT ANYONE WITH A TIRE IRON.)

    This came into my lexicon after I was at one of the earlier AnimeIowa cons; they had a pinata but nothing to hit it with, so I volunteered the use of my 1985 Fiero’s tire iron as a suitable blunt object. That was fun.

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  14. tire iron? They would be lucky, i was thinking more like a baseball bat wound with barbed wire, swing till it stops moving.

    ive been in the trades since i was 19, grew up on a ranch, lets just say i can do stuff, all kinds of stuff, and, have NEVER been in want of work, NEVER.

    that aint changing. I resent being lectured by ignorant trust funders who cant even change a tire let alone do anything skilled or artful, better yet, artfully skilled. I get that bs all the time and have had it with that crap.

    out here theres hordes of azzhats who have relocated from the west coast because its gotten too sketchy, most in their teslas or other electric vehicles with a paid for house covered with solar panels and they dont work. You get the down the nose looks from them when im sitting at a traffic light in my big F350 next to a local kid in a jacked up Tacoma, these liberal POS can GFT!

    they are the same Sc hiTT you are talking about. Im sich of their BS. Ill be driving my Superduty till the rust wins even if i got to drive it unregistered and with diesel fuel made from caster beans.

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  15. *scribbling note to self for future use*  “…you are a cankerous worm fallen from the rotten ass of Karl Marx, and if given your way you will turn all of the Earth as dismal, sterile and dead as that thing you call a soul.” Now, that’s an original and creative term of abuse. Will set it aside, and work it into a tirade at some future time…

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    1. It’s times like this I miss Gharlane of Eddore (the poster, not the literary character.) Of course, the last 10-15 years would have induced a heart attack in him like the one that actually killed him, so probably just as well.

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    2. A cow orker? That has to be an unusual job. Does it involve doing something to the cows to make them go “Ork!”? (I have my ideas what that could be.) Or does it involve Robin Williams in some arcane way?

      Ah, typos. Producing spontaneous comedy since Gutenberg.

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        1. Akschully, it’s a fossilized typo joke from Usenet, back in the day. Dilbert might have popularized it, but Scott Adams didn’t invent it.

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      2. Hmm, there’s a get off my lawn moment here. Cow orkers were known of in the early days of blogging. I ran into the term in the Oughts. And yes, Orking cows probably would get one arrested and put in the “special” jail cell.

        Haven’t seen the term in a while, but it’s useful. And fun.

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    3. Of course, they’re for the little guy, chicken nugget-sized, and deep-fried by the truckload. Those cantankerous worms can get mighty hungry after a long day of telling each other how precious they are.

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    5. I keep seeing that, in the “I used to be a Democrat” circles. “Oh, the democrats used to be the party of the little guy, no wars, peace and compassion and small government.”

      Obviously they got their information exclusively from the leftist media and didn’t question, looked away when the actions of their party didn’t match this fairy tale description. Many honestly seem to think that the current “leftist” idiocy is NEW, as in the last few years, and think it can be redeemed.

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  17. Part of it is that they KNOW that they’re Superior People and so totally totally deserve the bennies of being Aristos, with the peasants looking up to them and tugging their forelocks, very ‘umble sir. (aka “KNOW YOUR PLACE, PEASANTS!”)

    But another part, I believe, is that it has finally sunk in that Socialism is better at producing poverty and misery, while free (or even semi-free) markets are better at producing prosperity and abundance. So, since “Socialism Is Good” is an axiom that’s literally unthinkable to question, it follows that poverty and misery are Good and Desirable, while prosperity and abundance are BadWrong and EvilWicked.

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    1. Like some religious people who think that if fasting is good, good cooking should be outlawed.

      Or Plymouth MA thinking that if boycotting tea was good, outlawing tea inside Plymouth would be better. (Not predicting the rise of the town’s local tea smugglers.)

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    1. Comparing the current generation of Democrats to Cheap Temu junk is an insult to Chinese manufacturing processes. At least the Temu crap usually works the first time you use it :-) .

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  19. I remember reading that most Revolutionaries were middle-class folks (sometimes upper-class folks) because they weren’t “suffering and trying to make ends meet” like the true lower-class folks.

    They had enough of an income to have time to stop and think about society and how it might be fixed/improved.

    The true lower-class folks were too busy surviving to “plot revolution”.

    I’m wondering if our would-be masters want the average person to be “too busy surviving” to plot the over-throw of our would-be masters.

    But that would take some intelligence on their part so I’m likely wrong. [Wink]

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      1. My recollection is that the members of Weatherman were all upper class, as well. And the bomb that dramatically blew up in their bomb lab was in the basement of a very nice house, in a very nice neighborhood, that someone (possibly the parents of one of the members; I’d need to look it up in Days of Rage) had granted them permission to use.

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  20. My favorite are the folks who have suddenly “noticed” inflation and are calling it “Trumpflation”.

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    2. Only to the trans-pallet tastes of Oor Beh’-urs who take masochistic glee in “enjoying” reprobate vegetables (see also cauliflower) that the benighted serfs would only inflict on swine and naughty children.

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        1. I’m sure quinoa is just lovely. So lovely that all the BlueAnon I-eat-exotic-food-so-I’m-better-than-you folks are indifferent to the fact that they’ve made a South American staple so expensive that many of the Andean poor can barely afford it. Just like gasohol drove up corn prices in Mexico. Don’t even get me started on EVs and their lithium batteries and where that stuff comes from.

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  23. You have to be privileged beyond comprehension to think of basic necessities as treats, but then again these people are privileged beyond comprehension being the spawn of the rich and powerful and never having had reality intrude on their life. Hell, the average denizen of Versailles under the Bourbons were positively down to earth an clued in by comparison.

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  24. They’d probably say my treat was getting a stent inserted today.

    “But minorities in Africa can afford heart procedures! You should have given yours to them and then died because middle-aged heterosexual married White men stole them.”

    Never mind I worked all of my life to pay for my healthcare while the feds stole at least half of my contribution to people never work a lick in their livers

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  26. They were mocking the price of basic food items like eggs.

    But now that the election is over, and Trump has started talking about punitive tariffs against Mexico, all we hear is about how high the price of avocados is going to reach.

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        1. I simply could not find chocolate carp. New Zealand has chocolate fish, most often marshmallow enrobed in milk chocolate, but that’s not the same.

          I am not Hispanic enough** to really enjoy chili powder in my chocolate.

          I do, sometimes, enjoy large-numbered green fruit on my sourdough toast – probably classed as a ‘treat’. A little chopped lawyer is a nice seasoning, too.

          ** where ‘enough’ is ‘not at all’ – my heritage is 100% Baltic, at least in the last 150 years or so.

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          1. On a a barely related note, new research:

            https://www.sciencealert.com/one-type-of-chocolate-could-reduce-type-2-diabetes-risk-by-21

            Link to the BMJ published study at the bottom.

            The biggest takeaway, based on an average 25-year follow-up: eating five or more servings of dark chocolate a week was linked to a 21 percent drop in the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, compared with rarely or never eating chocolate.

            Potentially dietary ivermectin !

            “Of course I love you – here, have some more 60% cacao chocolate.”

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            1. She-Hulk was a lawyer and green. I heard it was on TV, so it must be true. A green lawyer might not be an alligator pear, but pretty close.

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            3. It gets better. The original name via the natives was something like ahuatl—which specifically meant “testicles.” So the name went from that to a corrupt variant of “lawyer” because the words sounded similar.

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      3. Took me a moment to get that, quite clever. I hereby award you a mole of Theobromine followed by a mole of carp (ballistically delivered). I don’t think mole sauces use Avocados but the kind of Mexican food I indulge in is rather low-brow compared to anything with a mole sauce.

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    2. Never mind that both Mexico and Canada have options to avoid tariffs. All they have to do is agree to aggressively patrol the border and prevent crossings from their side. Or you know, agree to become 51 – 60th states. (Bring in Mexico as two states, and Canada as probably what, 6 – 8 states.

      Canada and Mexico just have to reeeeeeeee.

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          2. I don’t know. Get Canada away from the influences of the mother country, those hiding would come out of hiding, others could grow a backbone. Right? Right?

            Okay even I don’t totally agree with this. Don’t see how a location that has so much empty territory, mountains, and wildness (grizzlies, wolves, oh my) can be so, um, so … spineless? Posters like Phantom and other Canadians who post here, exempted.

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            1. I suspect that the problem in Canada is the same as the one in the US: The residents in most of the country (specifically including the “wild” areas) is a lot like here, fairly independent and self-supporting, while the majority infesting Toronto and other major population centers are like the ones infesting DC, NYC, LA, SanFran, Chi and all the other magnets for leftists and parasites (BIRM) here.

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                1. Yeah the only pieces we might want are British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and maybe Northwest Territories. Let Nunavit revert to the locals. Ontario and the Eastern Atlantic sections are essentially giant blue-like sinkholes for money. Quebec is just too fricking annoying for words. Let all those provinces fend for themselves.

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                    1. Better idea: Simply reject Ontario and Quebec (who needs failed states?) and probably Nunavut, and annex everything else.

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                    2. I am afraid we have to let the Canadians decide. That said the western part of Canada is rather peeved at Ontario. But probably not that peeved.

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              2. Back in the dim and misty depths of time when I was still in High School, I had a teacher (the same one who had hit the beach in Normandy, over on Utah beach, in the second wave in his youth) who was convinced the western part of Canada would break away and become one or more U.S. states.

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              3. Hey, maybe we could revive the Three-fifths Compromise of 1787. Let’s count votes from urban dwellers (say, minimum population 100,000) as 3/5 of a vote while giving whole votes to non-urban voters.

                ‘1 man, 1 vote’ has been vitiated by Bad Actors.

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              2. Once the finances are sorted post-bankruptcy, territorial status ends when 51% can pass the citizenship test.

                Counties with passing scores can apply separately or in contiguous blocks.

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  27. These pseudo-aristocrats believe that they-and only they, because of their superior moral and political training-are able to make decisions for the rest of us. Because they are of that particular kind of The Elect and are allowed to make those kinds of decisions.

    A pox on all of them, and anyone that uses terms like “Treater” should be made to understand what is required to get those “treats”.

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  28. “I’ve seen the plans for your ‘New World Order’ and I’m not impressed. You want everybody to own nothing, so you can own everything. Nothing New about that. It’s the wish of every two-bit despot since the Stone Age. Hell, it goes back to monkeys, before we were even human.”

    Her smile was not the least bit nice. “That’s all you are, Klaus. Just another greedy monkey.”

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    1. thats all any of those bazillionaires are, most have done nothing to get where they are, guys like Elon or Jeff B or the like have developed amazing things, but they are not the norm amongst these wealthy betters than all us. People like o-rah or her ilk have ridden to opulance by peddling BS and the only reason they throw crumbs to the poor is to get a tax break

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      1. “You didn’t work for that money. You got it through graft and larceny. And you believe that makes you better than people who have worked for what they’ve got. Like us. We only want what we’ve earned.”

        “But we will not settle for less.”

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  30. I for one welcome such flaming idiocy from the deep-bubble left.

    “Call them Adolph louder, then yell at them for wanting to eat! That’ll make them vote for us!!” is a in the real world a poor plan for winning in the next few elections. If that is what they go with in 2026 they will lose lots of seats in Congress.

    If on the other hand the Party is actually taking notice of the herd of shrieking follically combustive ultra-urban-deep-bubble idiots that are by volume defining their public positions, and taking action to move those aside, out of the limelight and away from the official social media account keyboards to present more reasonable public positions in future, that could be enough to fool some of the people. But can they move those nutjobs aside? Who can they count on to be the core voting block in their theory of governance if they don’t kowtow to the far left? They can’t win national office on just the votes of caucasian college degreed unmarried childless women who like wearing masks. They can’t even keep winning in California on those.

    I am encouraged by “Treatler” and similar idiocies. As long as we can get them to keep the nutjobs in charge, the chances of keeping things getting better are improved.

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    1. Human nature to accept anything of value that comes our way, either via work, or happenstance. And humans LOVE them some happenstance, because that yields the highest ROI. The Left understands that very well. What they are abysmally ignorant of is what Maggie Thatcher mentioned, ‘Socialism works great, until you run out of other people’s money.”

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        1. The legal tangling when the Formerly Golden State goes bankrupt thanks to the overhanging fiscal avalanche-to-be of the government employee unions guaranteed retirement obligations will be interesting to watch.

          I’m personally betting on the concept of federal receivership, with the entire state getting un-statehood-ed back to a federal territory for the duration of said receivership. Whether it also gets broken up into smaller chunks is the open question.

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          1. Divide California into two parts: Sacra-de-mento, Berzerkely, San-Fran and the L.A. metro area in one part, and the less insane remainder of the state in the other part. That way the ‘progressives’ can freely practice their beliefs without imposing them on the rest of us.

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            1. SAC is pretty strongly linked to the SF Bay Area politically, so I doubt the seceding north would want them included in their chunk.

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              1. Sacramento is only that way because of all the imports. Remove the political class and it goes back to being farm-to-fork. (Trust me on this. There’s a LOT of folk in Sac-town who don’t like the reputation it’s gotten because of the SoCal folk.)

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                1. I can tell you that from the LA side they view SF-SAC as the enemy axis within the uniparty power structure, with the LA pols all bent out of shape that they never get the call up to eth big leagues – no LA Mayor-to-Senator or Governor, no cabinet posts, and Nancy Pelosi and her direct relatives keeping all the political power in the state with that family, all from SF-SAC.

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            2. Remember East and West Pakistan? One could plausibly geographically unify San Francisco to Sacramento along Interstate 80, but Los Angeles is about 380 miles south. Some of the coastal counties in between might not want/deserve association with those extremes.

              Want to keep Long Beach separate; East California (or, West Arizona) needs a port.

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              1. Michigan and its separate “Upper Peninsula” have already set the precedent for non-contiguous states. Hawaii is another example.

                Granted, they are not separated by some other state. But they do indicate that the land of a state does not have to be one contiguous blob.

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                1. Oh, that part is all right; but given the prospective ‘North Commifeornia’ and ‘South Commeifornia’, which one becomes Bangladesh?

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          2. I’m personally betting on the concept of federal receivership, with the entire state getting un-statehood-ed back to a federal territory for the duration of said receivership.

            That would take action by Congress. Based on how our UniParty Senate is treating Trump’s nominees, they’ll send them a bailout plus.

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            1. Maybe when it’s still in the “about to go bankrupt” stage, but after CA defaults I am not sure about Congress just signing up for continuous support payments while leaving the government in place the bankrupted the state.

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                1. And the Tea Party was originally formed because they opposed that particular bailout. Not that you’ll find anyone mentioning that today, no, that wouldn’t fit The Narrative.

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              1. I once saw a post that breaking California into smaller states wouldn’t work, because the northern half had no economic base. And I muttered, “that’s only because you’re getting the water for free down south.”

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  32. I was just talking with a friend at work and explaining that the last time the Republicans put forward a candidate who could “act Presidential” and give a firm handshake and be polite and play well with others and reach across the aisle (Mitt Romney), the news-media-industrial-complex, Hollywood, the Democrat politicians, and to a lesser extent, academia all savaged him and smeared him as Hitler and ran him out of town.

    So we got Trump, who called them all out and gave as good as he got.

    Then they stole the election in 2020 and incited a couple of assassination attempts in 2024.

    So now we get Super Trump: the Pimp Hand of Politics.

    Me personally, I’m stocking up on popcorn. XD

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  33. A pox on their house of cards. snark
    One hopes that some day the Supreme Court Declares Marxism a religion so it can be banned from schools. sarc.
    Marxism should only be taught in philosophy class as a failed ideology. true dat
    ‘If only’ is the first words of children, not adults.

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      2. Thhhp!

        I *did* drop a hint of what the attractive model was wearing (or photo-shopped into wearing, more likely) in the text I wrote. And no one can argue that anything I said was untrue.

        :P

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    1. Was this supposed to be attached to the chlorine trifluoride thread? Certainly FOOF would be a worthy alternative.

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        1. The fun thing is that after a crazy chemist intensely studied it, FOOF proved to be useful in removing radioactive oxides from machinery.

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  36. I remember when one of the greatest things about the USA was civilian oversight of the military. Now I wish we had civilian oversight of our government.

    I just hope Trump is able to accomplish it.

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        1. Trained at our own expense, no less, and able to be removed on suspicion. (Yes, reinstatements can happen—I did see one where it was definitely unjustified—but it can take a long time, years in that case.)

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        2. “BSA has adult supervision.”

          Supposedly. Have you met some of the adult (male) supervisors?

          “You’d better have clean(er) cloths to get into!” To both the adult and youth scouters, after building an impromptu hill mud slide (or it was by the time they were done with it). To the adult scouters “Or you are walking home.” To the youth “Or we are calling parents to pick up!” (FWIW. Yes, they all had clean clothing.) Worse? The adult scouters were risking more than muddy clothing (most were ages 50+). To the parents complaining when they opened scout packs. “Not my fault. You want to prevent this type of stuff? You come out to supervise the weekend!” (They never did.)

          Did get a kick out of youth boy scouts (and this applies now to the female scouts) “How do they”, the male adult scouters, “know what we are planning?” (Usually before the youngsters do.) Hated to burst their bubbles, but their adult scouters actually were young male scouters themselves. Trust me they thought of things to do, and did, that youngsters today would never consider. There is a reason why stories of the “good old days” were previewed and edited, or culled, before campfire sharing. Cone wars these days are generally Douglas Fir cones. Back in the day? Not necessarily. FYI. This is why every minute of every outing is over planned out. Having been in GSA, this applies to girls as much as the boys.

          The armed services? Yes, in times of peace, the armed services needs adults in charge here and at the bases elsewhere. Times of war? Drop them behind enemy lines and tell them to “git er done” without adult supervision (WW2).

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          1. LGOPP – Little Group of P*ssed-off Paratroopers. An irked batch of armed 18-21 year old males with ammunition, a general direction to head, creativity, and a grudge. All while lacking in adult supervision. I.e the most terrifying military force in the world.

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  37. Yes!

    Oh. I forgot to add. When the US pulls them out, and reestablishes adults in charge here and at their bases, the message should be “You don’t want US coming back! Behave!”

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