Sympathy For the Devil

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

The left…. well… they are people of wealth and taste. Or at least a lot of them are.

I’m not questioning the wealth, though it seems now most of them got rich by sucking government teat (well, it always seemed like that, looking at how rich congressmen get. Now we just have more evidence of how it was done.)

I’m questioning the taste.

Look, I grew up amid leftists by definition because I grew up in Europe and I have an intellectual bend. While it has gotten like that here too, I’d say in that Europe was a good twenty years “ahead” of us. So it was like going to an ivy league school in the early oughts.

I knew that they had nostalgie de la boue — for those not of French inclination “a taste for mud” — meaning if presented with a group of people who shower every day, look after themselves and others, etc. and a group of people who are somewhere between bohemians and criminals, wash once a month, have sex with cockroaches and don’t even look after themselves, much less others, the leftist will always inevitably find something to praise about the repulsive ones.

This is part the myth of the noble savage being at the very basis of their philosophy — Marx would be as nothing without his theories having mated with Rosseau — and the fact most people ATTRACTED to leftism, particularly at the level of becoming activists being… well… wrong ‘uns.

Yes, there is a continuum between wrong ‘uns and Odds, and most of us are Odds. I’d say wrong ‘uns though are the ones motivated primarily by envy. And envy is the cardinal VIRTUE to leftists, the thing that makes them righteous is that they envy the people who have and do and look as they don’t do.

I am not saying most of us didn’t look at the kids with large friend groups and feel a twinge of jealousy. But jealousy isn’t envy. I wanted to be able to be like them, not to destroy them so no one could be like that. The second is envy. Jealousy resolves itself, as you get older and start understanding trade offs… Like, I could be jealous of Melania Trump who is about my age (?) and looks at most thirty and has the body I never had but wish I did. But I do understand that she’s made keeping herself in shape and beautiful part of her life’s work, while I have been known to bum around in a robe all day if books are being particularly loud, and if my husband had married me for my looks, he’d have been very disappointed I wear makeup like war paint, and only when facing things that scare me. OTOH though I understand she’s a smart lady, she probably would find it onerous to spend a week running down a rabbit hole raised by a casual mention of an historical incident in a fanfic. …. But I do and I have to, and it’s part of the reason I don’t have time for makeup and exercise machines bore me to death.

I.e. I’ve come to terms with people are themselves, I’m me and we wouldn’t like each other’s trade offs. All in all I am okay with who I am, partly because I’ve never been anyone else.

Envy doesn’t let you do that, and the last final idea of envy is always to destroy those you envy, and to gloat over them.

If you look at all leftist movements, envy is their fatal flaw. None of us would object to affirmative action/DEI if it were a series of voluntary, privately founded programs to say teach black people or women what they need to get ahead in business. We might find it (I would) specious that it only applies to ONE skin color or sex, but hey…. Since historically these people did worse, maybe there’s something cultural we can fix. I’m all for that.

(I’m here thinking of a friend I had back in the eighties, who had two phds and couldn’t find a non-retail job, and she was convinced it was racism. Then she came by my house on the way to a job interview and … well, I wouldn’t wear what she had on to do yard work. I freaked, and lent her one of my skirt suits, and fixed her hair. She got the job. And she moaned about “why didn’t anyone tell me that before?”…. look, how she missed the whole “dress for success” movement is a puzzle, but she was my friend, therefore an Odd, and– yeah, cultural holes happen.)

But the left isn’t happy with that. It’s not enough for women who aren’t inclined to marriage and children to be perfectly all right with going into business, and being in fact treated the same as men in business. No. Women who want marriage and children must be shamed/destroyed. The only allowable option must be for women to have “careers.” Women must in fact be forced to be men, to retroactively validate the choice of some wrong ‘un who was shamed for not being normal.

And it’s not enough for business and hiring to be color blind. Not a bit of it. Black people must be advanced over white people. White people must be prevented from advancing and treated worse than any black person ever was, absent slavery. Because the wrong ‘uns — most of them not black — want it retroactively validated that it wasn’t their fault they didn’t get ahead.

The logic of envy causes the left ultimately to hate the good for being good, the happy for being happy, the normal for being normal.

(If you haven’t caught the whiff of put down in “neurotypical” you haven’t been listening. Now I’d give my left arm and a bit of the right to not have a mind that gallops in all ways at once, and to be able to achieve concentration and working on one thing at a time WITHOUT meds. But I don’t look down on the neurotypical. I just wish I could function like that. I don’t want THEM to stop functioning as they do. What would that serve?)

Their logic inexorably leads them to hate humanity itself. I once watched a future evolution series (I THINK Animal Planet, though it might have been another science channel) and could predict every step based on the idea the creators hated humans and would put thumb on the scale for the ultimate “winners” to be as far from humans as possible, including all mammals ending up extinct, then all warm blooded creatures, ending up with intelligent octopi swinging from trees. (I’m actually not joking.)

So I’ve known all this, but all I can say is that they used to be better at hiding it. And they didn’t use to make it so obvious in your face, all within a week.

They didn’t use to ACTIVELY in the same week, cheer on actual demons, or try to spring actual proven gangbangers from jail while ignoring murder victims, or explain, snootily that Mayan child sacrifice wasn’t actually violent, but just a way to communicate with the gods.

They do all of this, mind you, and did my whole life, quietly and behind the scenes, including cheering on genocidal dictators and mollycoddling terrorists.

But few of them did it in public, and if they did they always had a million caveats and excuses.

Oh, yeah, I don’t have links, but we were also treated to Taylor Lorenz simping for a murderer, and when called on it she said that of course she also sympathized with Palestinians.

Now, part of why they seem so out there and brazen, and the rest of us are standing here, eyes agog wondering what the heck has come over them, is that they have lost their cover.

It used to be that when they chose to ignore something in the media — like say the mother of a murder victim at the white house talking about her daughter being killed by illegals — while pushing a story of victimhood about a human pustule like Abrego Garcia, the general public never heard the real story. Definitely we didn’t have places like this blog, three email lists I’m on, or Twitter, where people will point out Abrego Garcia has gang tattoos and that only members of MS-13 have those, partly because if anyone else has them MS-13 kills those people.

So part of it is that their control of the mass-industrial information complex has been removed, and now they’re doing what they always did but in full light of day. I keep visualizing them as a bunch of villains who used to do things behind a curtain and now are doing them with the curtain removed, and don’t understand we can see them.

And part of it is simply that they’ve been going down this philosophical bend so long that they’ve now reached their ultimate conclusion.

And the fact that their covert, “virtuous” attempts at destroying civilization and humanity, by hiding it under the cloak of “saving the Earth” are failing only makes them angrier and the hatred that accompanies envy stronger.

I feel like they’re speeding towards some metaphysical black hole of evil in front of G-d and everybody. And I hope and pray it doesn’t come because if it does the backlash will change us forever as a nation and possibly as a civilization. To be fair, that backlash will also be needed for civilization and humanity to survive.

They’ve come pretty close with trying to excuse/approve of the atrocities of 10/7. And they’ve only gotten away with it to the extent that they have managed to hide somewhat here (And massively abroad) how atrocious those atrocities really were.

But I feel as though they’re building up to something even bigger and more brazen. And I hope something prevents them from that. Because it won’t go well for them.

Or, ultimately, for anyone.

163 thoughts on “Sympathy For the Devil”

  1. It’s one thing to “sympathize with Palestinians” but another thing to support terrorists like Hamas.

    People who support Hamas should be deported from the US.

    Unfortunately, it can’t be legally done when the supporters are US citizens.

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      1. A ton? Hell, there’s hardly a microgram of difference. Hordes of ‘Palestinian civilians’ swarmed into Israel after the terrorists to help out with the rape, torture and murder.

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        3. This. They all wanted in on the party. And afterwards, none of the rescued or released hostages could report any tiny smidge of a bit of kindness or humanity on the part of the Gazans. I ran out of sympathy for Palestinians about a decade ago – and after 10-7, I care even less, if that is humanly possible.

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              1. Yep. And it looks like Israel is not going to stop this round until the problem is at least mostly solved, because this time there won’t be a group of Brandon’s “handlers” making him wag his finger and say “No, no no! Bad Israel! No biscuit today!”.

                And BTW, Happy Lexington/Concord Day!😊

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        1. Did not surprise me. The idiots probably cheered the USS Cole, the Beirut bombings, and the anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

          The argument goes, there are innocents there that do not follow that creed, but hide it. Sure. I buy that. Toddlers and infants. For the rest, though? They never even consider any other way. Their entire life is one taught of envy, greed, violence, arrogance, and other bandity/thuggish things.

          Other peoples, particularly Jews, are not people to such bandity types. Not human.

          The human mind is quite a marvelous thing. Able to conceive of many things, believe a thousand others, and cling to ideals of faith in the face of outrageous privation. But it can also be a lazy thing, too, in many of us.

          It is *easy* to be just another part of the choir of the damned. Peer pressure, inculcation/indoctrination, *family* pressure, the lot. It does not require much if any thought or even an iota of courage to be simply a face in that manic crowd.

          I’ve little sympathy for their false cries of victimhood or demand for pity. What “little” there is there is, again, reserved for the innocents, the littlest of children. For the rest? Should aliens just abduct them all, or they be devoured by one of the Great Old Ones in a fit of pique, or simply washed away to sea where their giblets would be nibbled by the fishes- the world would like as not just shrug its shoulders and move on, the better for it.

          Note to all, I do not view them as *less than human.* No. But there’s some human beings out there that just need killin’.

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          1. In the early 1980s, MomRed had a student (adult) who had family from what is now Israel and Lebanon. He said, in essence, the ones who disagreed got out or died, and the ones who remain either agreed with the PLO and Hizbollah, or didn’t dare oppose them. It hasn’t changed much.

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    2. Those in the US who support them do so out of self hate, they wrongfully believe that their station in life was built upon the backs of people like the Gazans, spits on floor and grinds it in, a lie so profound and built from guilt. That is what envy really turns, Guilt, they care, but that care is twisted into sympathy using guilt and it’s bastard mother Envy. Instead of building and repairing their own lives and making the world better, they destroy everything that reminds them of their own guilt. Uncle Ben’s rice, gone because black faces make urban liberal women guilty. First American faces on butter, makes white liberal woman feel guilty, gone. Sports teams, guilty, gone. Has any of those groups now seen any improvement in how they are treated or how their lives are, or is it now easier to ignore them? White Liberal women also note that their guilt hasn’t left them, it just switches to something else they need to ignore and remove from their sight. Dear ladies it said in the good book, if your eye offends thee, pluck it out. Think about it. After all it is sarcasm at it’s finest, biting and personal, I’ll answer it for you, If you don’t like what you see, fix it, don’t ignore it. Don’t just make it go away because you are guilty about it.

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      1. True, but you can deport green-carders for verbally supporting them.

        On the other hand, you can’t deport or jail citizens for verbally supporting them.

        On the gripping hand, you might be able to jail citizens for doing more than verbally supporting them (might need a change in US Laws).

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        1. I’m a big believer in fewer laws, less corruption, waste, fraud, and abuse. And that the idiots should not be jailed or fined for being idiots. Let them spew their hate as they must. A proper citizenry would look upon that with distaste, and refuse to have anything to do with them, much as polite society shuns those with poor hygiene habits.

          But nudge but a single toe over the line of the law…

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  2. Yes, exactly. The left have ALWAYS been this way. Which is why I don’t buy into Trump ever having been a Clintonite or a Trumanite or an early FDRite. He was never one of them, and they always held these views. He grew up amongst them, somewhat similar to what you did. So he knew to pull their mask off.

    And yeah, sadly the clash is coming. They keep trying to bait the right into throwing the first punch. If we never do, they will, and try to make it look like we did (ala Jan 6).

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    1. The mentality of the “core” left has always been like this.

      There have been a lot more “fellow travellers” that ride along the slipstreams of these people, like remora fish on a shark, because it’s easier and there’s always salvage around to feed off of.

      And I’m scared about the upcoming clash. It’s going to happen; they will make a new “summer of love” when they find the right Horst Wisel/George Floyd to use as the martyr for their banners.

      And I’m worried about who I know and love and care about…will be on the other side of the lines.

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      1. “they will make a new “summer of love” when they find the right Horst Wisel/George Floyd to use as the martyr for their banners.”

        This black kid who stabbed a white kid in the heart at a school track meet for no reason but they’re trying to spin it as the white kid was a racist bully based on zero evidence feels like it’s going to explode in a big way. Especially with the horrifyingly stupid ghetto behavior of the defendent’s family, attorneys, and spokesman.

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        2. I’m getting that feeling as well – the usual black rabble-rousers are going through the same old raaaaaaacist dance, trying to gin up the baying mob … but very few outside of the usual suspects seem to be buying it.

          The kid appears to have been a gangster wanna-be, deliberately provoking a confrontation … and bringing a killing-knife to a high school track meet?

          That part of Texas is apparently very middle-class, and generally law-abiding. I don’t see the raaaaaacist ugga-bugga dance going over very well at all. Of that sh*t we are comprehensively tired.

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          1. The idea may be for the violence to start outside Texas. But it is a disgusting spectacle

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      2. I wonder if K.Anthony in Frisco Tx is going to be that trigger? He murdered Austin Metcalf. His family’s spokesperson (who is a known criminal himself) had Metcalf’s father removed from his press conference without provocation; and then denigrated him for it. Someone in their crowd SWATTED Metcalf’s family. It’s like they are deliberately trying to start a race war.

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        2. If/when any consequences come to the family (I put false flag chances at 50-75%), they’re going to play the “poor guy is a Victiiiiim!” card, but that’s a harder sell than the MS-13 “good citizen” one.

          Bringing a knife to a track meet is one hell of a tell.

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    2. The Reader thinks that if the left throws a punch strong enough to move the ‘switch’, history will be written by the victors. And as Sarah noted, even winning will change our civilization in ways the Reader would rather not see.

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      1. I would rather not see those changes either. I would rather it didn’t happen at all. But like An Author In Charge, I am convinced it is going to happen, no matter how much I would prefer it otherwise. Also like Author, I have family on the other side of the line.

        The left has decided it will happen. The question, Reader, is not if. But when.

        The Reader worries about history being written by the victors. Rightfully so. But the alternative is surrender, which none of us can accept.

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        1. The Reader doesn’t worry about history being written by the victors. My point was that if it happens the left won’t be in any position to convince anyone that we did it. And the Reader does have family on the other side of the line as well. But he has no intention of surrendering either.

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          3. Himself watches out for drunkards, fools, and the United States of America. So best we be that nation as hard as we can. It’s not so much that He is on “our” side, more that we are on His when we do right.

            The lefties are wringing themselves tight. They want all of us to join in on that apocalyptic narrative, that there’s going to be war. Currently? I doubt it. I doubt it very much.

            Will there be mudscuffles? Yep. Doubtless so. Will there be riots, like the firey but mostly peaceful arson’n’looting sprees? Sure. They are used to it, but it’ll be harder on them this time. Assassination attempts? Already happened.

            But war? Full on, crazycakes Eastern Europe clusterflork? No. The left has skirmishers, sure. But they don’t have an army. They have a few hard bois that are more mercenaries than devoted soldiers. They have nutjobs. Crazies that bomb and such.

            But they’re not going to stand around on watch. They’re not going to patrol with discipline. They’re not going to hold territory in the face of actual opposition. Their supply lines are being cut as we speak. Fewer dollars are being funneled into the pockets of those that direct the mobs, so to speak.

            And let us not forget, we’ve had a history of political violence before. One big occasion, several much smaller ones. Those things were quashed and afterwards, there was relative peace.

            Should America return to a proper state of rule of law, with a solid majority of sane people enforcing and litigating, we can have that peace again. I want the next generation to be strong, proud, intelligent, and wise. I want them to learn the lessons of we that stand today. I want them to fight their battles (and they *WILL* have opponents, sure as the sun will shine) with honor, integrity, and implacable will.

            I want an America that endures for the free.

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    1. Along with decades of indoctrination since birth to hate The Jooos and Those Eeevul Americans. In U.N. schools paid for with OUR tax money, no less.

      ‘Palestine’ was invented by Josef Stalin as a propaganda stick to beat the Free World with. Why am I not surprised that today’s Leftroids are still repeating Stalin’s lies?

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          1. That one is self-perpetuating. In their tiny little brains, ‘Right-Wing’ == Eeevul, ‘Nazi’ == Eeevul, therefore they are the same. Hence the labeling of everybody they hate as ‘Right-Wing Nazis’. Or, as has recently become fashionable, ‘Putin-Puppets’. Even the ones that were ‘on the side of angels’ last week.

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            2. I wonder how much of the, “Russia, Russia, Russia!” is leftist fury at the Russians “betraying the Revolution.”

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              1. All those true-believer KGB handlers at Moscow Center did not just vanish into smoke in 1991, and many must be just as mad about the fall of their religious ruled empire as Vlad is. Thinking none of them ever got back in touch with their assets in the west is just silly, which makes a lot of the thematic underpinnings of the leftist public positions make a lot of sense.

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          1. Felt the same when David Camera Hogg’s “March for Life” went under along with USAID. And now he’s pissing off a lot of Dems by talking about primarying insuffiently leftist incumbents in safe districts.

            Don’t eat popcorn any more, but wow.

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          2. I’m sure that losing a bunch of leadership to pagers was the first punch, and losing funding is the second. Will they go down? I don’t bet against hate (it’s pernicious and hard to root out), but for once in my life, the indications are in favor.

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          3. Kinda like what happened to all the various terror groups across the west when the USSR collapsed – from the IRA to Bader-Meinhoff to the PLA, all of a sudden they were either hat in hand to make peace deals or just faded completely.

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  4. Part of why I tend to intuit horror form the previous information available on academic trained left, is because however much I might fit (1) the odd model, I am definitely a partial fit to some wrong ‘un models.

    You can think that the Carthaginians probably had it coming to them without being a wrong ‘un, but the totality of my personal history of opinions on historical peoples may make my basic personality a bit suspect. The Carthaginians were bad, but the Republican Romans were not, objectively, that much of a paragon of all civic and societal virtue.

    15ish years ago, I definitely was a bit more crazy, and angry at the world because I was unhappy.

    Now, I am a bit angry at a lot of other people who I can pick to focus on. But, really, objectively, there is something inside of me that is not okay, and is not me making the choices which are healthy for me.

    So I can intuitively understand that a person can drive themselves very bad insane by how they manage their internal lives, and by how they think about the behavior of others.

    I do have things to say about ‘neurotypical’, but I can just say that it is an idea that I do not agree with.

    Anyway, I do not think I have had very many modeling surprises with faces of evil revealed by the left lately. Now, part of that is how deeply I have my head buried beneath a rock, hiding from information that I might not need, and might not handle well.

    (1) I’m not sure I by the Odd hypothesis, nor that I am persuaded of exactly what it means.

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    1. “But, really, objectively, there is something inside of me that is not okay, and is not me making the choices which are healthy for me.”

      There is that something in all of us, my friend. I believe that we all have the capacity for great evil within us. Things which are not right for us, or any sane, healthy individual. I know I do.

      I can intellectually realize that my ability to empathize with others and feel their pain is blunted, at best. I can theorize what that might be like. But other people do it seemingly effortlessly, same as they “read the room.”

      There may well be plenty of things that exist that may seem practical, valid, and intellectually sound on the face of it, but are in all moral senses wrong. When one cannot reliably intuit a moral compass though, we tend to fall back on rationality.

      It appears to me that it is *very, very easy* to twist a mind to corruption. Almost as if we are wired for it from birth. Proper morality is hard, costly, and requires diligent effort. We have to be taught civilization. We are, none of us, born to it.

      But those of us that never lost the childish impulse to always question “why?” tend to drift away from leftism. It’s answers are anti-intellect. It rewards slavish obedience, not curiosity. It demands conformity. We Odds, we are very bad at conformity. Even those of us with the human impulse to community (weak as it may be in comparison to baseline normies), we don’t do it very well.

      We are not, all of us, simple cookie cutter “republicans.” Many of us are torch-and-pitchfork anti-Commuinists. Some of us are simply libertarian in the old sense. Others, we say fie on both parties and call them both corrupt nearly to the core (I do).

      Another thing that human minds seem to latch on to is betrayal of trust. Those that have left the left tend to have that in common. That sort of thing tends to be a defining moment. For those of us that have tried to follow the thread of the left, see what they promise and what they inevitably deliver, and draw our conclusions from that wonder why all the broken promises never result in feelings of betrayal.

      As I’ve grown older, one thought I’ve posited is that they’re in on the con. They profit from it in some form, so they wish it to continue- see the derange trailer trash girls that spit on those of us that work and call us idiots for earning a paycheck whilst they abide on the lavish ease of the dole.

      Still others do not look beneath the surface. Everyone they know who is smart is leftist, so leftism is smart (it isn’t- it’s dumb with an Ivy league accent). Or they have other things on their minds. Or it’s just the way their parents voted, and it doesn’t matter anyway. They excuse away any difficulty because it just doesn’t matter- to them. When your education, your home life, your entertainment, and your job all say the same thing- why bother investigating, digging deeper? There’s no need to.

      Laziness. Distraction. Peer pressure. Profit. Indoctrination. Entertainment. All these things add up. It takes a lot to break through those layers of insulation against reality.

      For us though? We Odds? We question. We are curious by nature. Things that don’t make sense are like an itch that we must scratch. Climate science did not make sense. Not until we uncovered it as a grift- simple corruption, large scale. “Racism” (common modern use of the term) did not make sense either. Race does not exist, but culture and heritability do. All the -isms were another grift. A setup to make money on fake things. E.g. DIE (DEI), HR shenanigans, and inclusivity nonsense.

      All these divisionary tactics were also traps that were *very lucrative* for those involved. Very socialist in form- those at the top got all the money. Everybody else got a pittance in comparison.

      I get that kind of tactic. I see the twisted kind of sense it makes. It is also utterly corrupt, right down to its stocking feet. Who indeed can resist the siren call of such profit for so little effort?

      Those who are Odd, well, most of us can. Money beyond a certain point would be superfluous. Bills paid? Fun money for little projects? Other than that, meh. Put it all into raising kids better maybe. Teach them how to build a proper shield wall, and Roman history will be a better kick for them. Let them camp out and fire a scaled down musket and they’ll appreciate American Revolutionary War history better. Stuff like that.

      Yes, we have temptations within us all. Violent ones, greedy ones, corrupt ones, faithless and cruel ones as well. Even the best of us. It is the facing down of those temptations and choosing a better path that is civilized.

      The world could use a bit more civilization in it, I’d say.

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      1. I suspect the, “trailer trash girls,” know they’re in the wrong, but can’t possibly admit it. So they attack the people “who make the rest of us look bad.”

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        1. Remember that humans seek community as a primary impulse. So their values are set on “fitting in” and anything that challenges that is wrong.

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      2. We are not, all of us, simple cookie cutter “republicans.” Many of us are torch-and-pitchfork anti-Communists. Some of us are simply libertarian in the old sense. Others, we say fie on both parties and call them both corrupt nearly to the core (I do).

        My favorite lately is “I’m not moderate; I’m extreme in all directions.” It makes people laugh, but really, the old axes don’t work anymore.

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  5. Because I wander in strange places, I ended up in proximity of an explanation of the Gene Stealer Cults from 40k. Essentially they’re people who’ve been mind controlled into mutating cultists, preparing the way for an invasion of ravenous alien hordes, in a Lovecraftian Shadows of Innsmouth sort of way.

    And when their four-armed gods finally do descend from the sky, and liberate their world, they throw everyone into the digestive pits, suck the world dry of life and move on. And their cultists are granted a brief moment of lucidity about the time they are falling into the pits to understand what they’ve actually done.

    What was surreal about the whole conversation was the two people describing it were, two what I can only describe as dude in dresses who were apparently getting married to each other and planning to move to another state. The two of them were very enthusiastic about the GSC, and I couldn’t tell if it was because they identified with them on some level, or if it was because they thought it would be an awesome thing to be able to do to people.

    I was curious, but not sufficiently to want to actually engage them them to find out.

    Just an odd experience all around.

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      1. Eaten last?

        Nay. Eaten first, and spared the horror.
        (Or rather, go stark raving mad in the face of the ineffable, then kill, fornificate, and eat each other with wild abandon—and uncertain order.)

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      2. That’s the weird thing, it wasn’t the eaten last part, it’s more they seemed excited about the realization of it all just before the end.

        And it isn’t like the cultists are choosing it either: it’s literally mind control. Forcible, non-consentual mind control and genetic modification tha compells them to rebel against and ultimately destroy their world.

        Most of the factions have at least some measure of say in their own problens. The GSC just don’t.

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    2. Like that scene in Ghostbusters Afterlife where the old dude knelt in front of Gozer and welcomed her to her new domain as her high priest. She got this look, bored and slightly disgusted, and ripped him in half. :-P

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    3. Everything I’ve ever read about 40k leads me to believe it’s much too dystopian for me even if I can appreciate some of the memes.

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      1. I can understand that. I’m mostly in it for the mini building and the tabletop game, and try not to get too wrapped up in the lore,

        In some pretty fundamental ways it is a world with magic but no good god to manage it.

        That said, every faction except the gene stealer cults does have some path towards a good ending. It’s just most of the time they wrap themselves around the axle too much to reach it.

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        1. I find the tabletop game rules to be consistently flawed, with every new edition introducing new flaws and only fixing half the flaws of the previous edition. I recommend trying out the free ruleset called Grimdark Future from One Page Rules: they’ve designed it to be playable with your existing WH40K minis so you don’t have to buy anything, but also they sell their own minis that are inspired by, but NOT copies of, the WH40K factions.

          The biggest thing that the Grimdark Future (GF) ruleset fixes is WH40K’s “you go, I go” moves. You activate every unit in your entire army, then it’s my turn and I activate all the units I have left… which might only be half of them at this point if you rolled well on your shooting phase. In the first half of 2021, someone calculated win/loss records for all recorded WH40K games and found that the player who got to go first won 56% of the time. It’s exacerbated for some factions: the Space Wolves won only 46% of their total games, but 59% of the games where they got to go first. This means that a multiple-hour game is often decided by a single die roll at the start of the game (picking first player), which is no fun at all. Not every time, but often enough that it shows up as a significant measure in the statistics and clearly shows the need for a rebalancing (which hasn’t happened yet).

          The way GF handles turns is, IMHO, superior: you alternate activating one unit at a time, placing markers next to units that have already activated this turn so that you won’t forget and activate one twice per turn. This leads to more interesting strategic decisions: it’s the start of the turn, and my sniper unit has been flanked so they’re in danger. Do I move them first, losing the +1-to-aim benefit that snipers get for staying in place but keeping them alive for next round? Or do I move my tank and take a shot at the unit that’s flanked my snipers, with a 66% chance of wiping out that unit but knowing that if I fail to wipe them out, my snipers are nearly guaranteed to die on my opponent’s next activation? Or perhaps I activate my stealth unit and move it into a threatening position, making my opponent do something else as a higher priority before he wipes out my snipers. Lots of strategic decisions to make, many of which don’t exist in a you-go-I-go turn structure.

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          1. I’ve played 40k for over 30 years 40k has never been i-go-you-go. Each side goes through their entire army – moving, shooting, close combat; then the next player goes.

            there is the bit where you shoot, then I calculate who dies, and in close combat we both fight, but that’s it.

            if you have a link on that idea that whoever goes first will win more often, id like, to see it. I’ve been to pro tournaments and never heard that.

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            1. I thought “I go you go” meant “I take my entire turn, then you take your entire turn”. I.e., what you said. If I’m getting my terminology mixed up, apologies for the confusion.

              The numbers I cited came from https://www.goonhammer.com/the-july-2021-warhammer-40k-meta-review/, which is a link I had from the time four years ago when I was investigating getting into GF and whether it was worth my time learning the WH40K rules (I decided it wasn’t).

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              2. Scroll down to the section titled “Go-First Win Rate Developments” to find the detailed numbers per faction. Nearly every faction had their chances improved by going first, with some interesting exceptions. For example, the Harlequins won 57% of their games, but only 51% of the games where they went first. The Grey Knights won just 31% of their games, and only 27% of the games where they went first.

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              3. A correction: my phrasing implied that the win rate numbers were crunched across all recorded WH40K games in the first half of 2021 (I didn’t actually say “first half of 2021” but that’s what I was trying to communicate), but I was wrong: it was all games recorded in the ITC Battles app during June 2021, not the first six months. June was chosen because it was the most recent complete month of data available when the article was published in July 2021, and they were trying to look at “did the game-balance changes from January 2021 affect go-first win rates?”. So they looked at data several months after the balance changes, when most of the player community had had time to adjust their strategies to the changes and the “Oops, that tactic used to work but now it doesn’t due to a recent rule change that I forgot about, so now I’ve weakened my position” effect would not be a factor.

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          2. Correction: the basic rules for Grimdark Future are free. The advanced rules cost $5 (well worth it in my opinion, but I haven’t paid for them yet because my kids aren’t yet old enough to enjoy playing the game with me. A couple more years yet and the oldest will probably be old enough to manage that level of complexity).

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          4. I’ll keep that in mind. Right now it’s core function is the reason to get out of the house and interact with people :) And we’ve got a very big Games Workshop store with a bunch of game tables nearby.

            But if that doesn’t pan out, I’ll keep an eye out for GDF groups near by as well.

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      2. I prefer the unofficial, fan-made “noblebright” versions of the WH40K setting, myself. Where the universe is a dark and scary place full of ravenous alien hordes and dark gods, but the Imperium of Man is a culture that actually values human life. So although the Imperial Guard may die by the thousands holding the line against the Tyrannids, their sacrifices are not in vain, as they save entire planets from being devoured, and they are remembered and honored as heroes.

        I can also recommend the Ciaphas Cain novels by Sandy Mitchell. He has a genius for taking a grimdark setting and inserting moments of true nobility in there, as well as a surprising amount of humor. Such as a meeting about how to deal with invading orks, where everyone is panicking: “Colonel Kasteen called the meeting to order. Then she called it to order again. Major Broklaw fired his bolt pistol into the ceiling, and the meeting came to order.”

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        1. Funny addendum to that – later Ciaphas Cain comes in, sees the holes in the ceiling, asks if the fighting got here? “No, no….”

          And Ciaphas is the kind of guy to realize two people have been infected and mindcontrolled, and kill them cleanly, because it was the most mercy he could give them.

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          1. I also loved the “I don’t believe in love at first sight, but…” scene from the first novel. (Rest of the sentence omitted so as not to provide spoilers for people who haven’t read the book; suffice it to say he proves himself wrong).

            Actually, that brings up an idea. There’s a trope that TV Tropes doesn’t have: the character who doesn’t believe in love at first sight, and is instantly proven wrong. I can think of three examples, but would love to have about a dozen examples before I go create the trope page. The three examples I’ve thought of are:

            1. The aforementioned Ciaphas Cain moment.
            2. The moment in Disney’s Cinderella (the original; I haven’t seen the live-action remake so I don’t know if they kept this moment) when the king’s chancellor is telling the king “Your majesty, love at first sight only happens in fairy tales!” (Paraphrase, not direct quote). Meanwhile the king is watching his son fall in love-at-first-sight with the unknown girl at the ball.
            3. Doc Brown in Back to the Future Part III. He explicitly says that he doesn’t believe in love at first sight. Then he meets Clara.

            If you (or anyone reading this comment) can come up with more examples of this happening (character declares disbelief in love at first sight and plot immediately proves him/her wrong), I’d love to hear them.

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      3. “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.”

        Foundation of GrimDark.

        Definitely not the Federation future.

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      4. to the characters on the ground, it’s not nearly as dystopia as it would seem.

        try the Ciaphas Caine novels for a more ‘fun’ version of 40k.

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  6. I suspect far too many of the people on the Left have been so…desperate to find something to demolish that is “normal” that they’ll tear apart anyone and anything that isn’t insane or destructive on their own.

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      1. I’ve known this for years, but just the…choice of “fellow travelers” makes me so very sad and annoyed and angry with these people.

        I don’t think most of them are like this, not in a bred-into-the-bone “E” evil sort of way. I think most of them are…hangers on. Scavengers who let the big monsters bring the prey down and feed on what’s left. And their protective camouflage is to say what the big monster says so the big monster eats someone first. They’re very good at lying to themselves about what they’re actually doing.

        But for far too many of the people saying this? They know what they’re doing, and that it’s all about and for them. Nothing else.

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  8. “None of us would object to affirmative action/DEI if it were a series of voluntary, privately founded programs to say teach black people or women what they need to get ahead in business. We might find it (I would) specious that it only applies to ONE skin color or sex, but hey…. Since historically these people did worse, maybe there’s something cultural we can fix. I’m all for that.”

    That would be ideal, but, aside from your anecdote about your friend, experience has shown that it wouldn’t work. That was how the perpetrators of the Indian Schools saw themselves. The temptation to self-righteousness is too strong, and, of course, the marxists have precluded that course by insisting that conforming to the cultural norm is to be “inauthentic” and evil. Blacks in modern America unfortunately suffer mostly from government “help” that destroys families and sends boys to gangs and girls to get pregnant and onto the government dole. There is little chance of escape from either one.

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  9. Good article that reflects our host’s post.

    https://alt-market.us/the-nwo-religion-how-the-woke-postmodern-faith-glorifies-evil/

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    To summarize, leftists are TOTAL relativists. The rules do not apply to them. The law does not apply to them. Morality does not apply to them. Conscience is non-existent for them (or it exists but they have trained their minds to ignore it). Biological reality does not apply to them. They think they are special and that boundaries should only exist for the people they don’t like.

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    1. Relativism, postmodernism, critical theory again. That old saw is the rotten, crumbly foundation made of silly little philosophies has been used and abused for over a century now. It’s as practically, morally, and intellectually bankrupt as ever.

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  10. “Neurotypical” was originally coined as a put-down. It was part of a satire skewering the way Odds and the autistic were treated as being deficient and inferior, by describing normal people with the same sort of negativity.

    Here’s a mirror of the now-lost original post:

    https://erikengdahl.se/autism/isnt/

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    1. Apologies for my above statemetn, I misremembered. This guy has the right of it.

      ‘Neurotypical’ is not my long standing irritant, ‘neurodiverse’ is.

      At the time, I thought ISNTD was a funny joke.

      Later, I was ‘well, akshully, if not wasting brain stuff on monkey business makes autistics better at single person tasks, then combat teaming is the killer app for normal socialization’.

      Since, I have come to believe that there are few truly single person tasks.

      Also, my efforts to learn to write, and to make money with writing, seemed to have trained me to waste tons of energy on social stuff.

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    1. They did a really bad job of keeping it secret, then. What they were doing was obvious to anybody with eyes and a brain capable of logical analysis.

      When is she going to start breaking down the election fraud? Starting with those 20 million ‘Biden Voters’ that appeared out of nowhere in October 2020 and vanished before Christmas. Or the Kalifornia ‘votes’ they kept counting into January until every single one of the ‘close’ House races was ‘won’ by the Democrat.

      “There’s statistically improbable, and then there’s ‘violates the fundamental principles of the universe’ improbable.”

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      1. The problem with 2020 is there’s been a hell of a lot of time to destroy the evidence, or at least contaminate it beyond any legally usable amount.

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  12. This is the end for the left and they know it, there is only two choices now, revolution for the sake of revolution, or slowly start to fade into obscurity. We know what they will choose, the only problem is there is not enough of them to make a real difference. We Win, They Lose.

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  14. “why didn’t anyone tell me that before?”

    Vance talks a bit about this in Hillbilly Elegy. He belatedly realized *after* his first post-Marimes job interview that wearing combat boots to an interview was not a good idea. And he mentions going to a dinner, and having to sneak out so that he could call Usha and ask why there was more than one fork on the table.

    He notes in his book that one of the problems that people from his birth class have when trying to move in higher circles is that it’s a different culture in many ways, and there’s no one explaining the rules.

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    1. A soon-to-be student teacher was intrigued by how I handle groups at Day Job. It turns out this person had never, ever been told the importance of clothing and the influence it can have on classroom discipline (both teacher and student). I suspect instructors avoid the topic lest they be considered sexist, or face accusations of imposing their personal values on teachers-to-be.

      Bushwa.

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      1. Funny – even at 71 the Reader still ‘dresses up’ to business casual with a sport coat when teaching a class at the local senior center. It’s something of a reflex. The rest of the time he hangs around in jeans and a sweat shirt with ‘Ye Olde Land Grant U’ logo.

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    3. Yep. I could acculturate in the US because I’d done it twice already. First when going to public school. Let’s say my family is a micro culture all its own.
      Then when going to college and associating with higher class people. (College then at all was kind of the Ivy league here. “Educated people” had NINTH grade education.) I too had to learn the mysteries of multiple knives, forks and spoons. (Was worse because having broken my brother into rigid manners and regretting it my parents decided not to EVEN MENTION etiquette of the table or ritualized kind to me, so that was fun. My first time using a fork and knife the European way (weirdly, I used fork and knife reverse and the American way.) I sent a very expensive steak flying out of the plate, off the table and to the floor at a five star restaurant, at a dinner with a prospective employer. I didn’t get that job.)

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      1. My sole understanding of table etiquette consists of saying grace, “Please pass the xyz” instead of reaching for it, “Thank you”, using the silverware from the outside first, and juggling the knife and fork after cutting each piece.

        Unless I’m eating in an enlisted mess hall with a bunch of other recruits. Then you just shovel it in as fast as you can before the DI chases you out.

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      2. Also at table, avoid certain foods like chicken, ribs, and spaghetti. There is no way that they can be eaten gracefully.

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        2. I was friends with a lady who was taught how to eat chicken legs with a knife and fork. (Me, when it’s legs, it’s fingers. We had knowledge of The Rules, but they were considerably relaxed when it was just the immediate family. OTOH, I never had ribs until I left home. Multiple reasons, but z(lack of) money and time were the keys. :) )

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          1. My wife used to say she knew she was marrying into the right family when, served pork chops, my Mom told her ‘We pick up the bones and gnaw on them here!’.

            Her dad cooked (her mom got a cookbook for her first anniversary), my dad cooked, I cook. She taught me to eat Mexican food and artichokes, among other gastronomic pleasures.

            She was Goddess of Pie Crust, something I have yet to try. Her dad used to ask her to bake a pie when we would visit.

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            1. I miss the local taqueria and the Chinese place west of the Cascades. The first was due to a recipe change, substituting wheat flour for cornstarch in one of their dishes (I think it was their guacamole-ish one). The other was when I ordered a dish that used much more soy sauce than I expected.

              Seems my body has unpleasant and lasting reactions to gluten. A dish might be tasty, but 5 days of hell means nope. There used to be a limited amount I could take, but that minimum keeps dropping.

              Haven’t eaten an artichoke in years, but I loved them when I was living in California. White wine, steamed artichoke, and home made mayonnaise for the win! Have to skip the wine now, and not sure if ‘chokes make it up to Flyover County, Oregon.

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              1. The one extra promise my husband asked when we got married was to never bring artichokes into the house. He had a bad experience once and the smell is now a trigger for nausea.

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    4. There is a reason why I’ve suggested that our colleges have etiquette classes again, and some of them should be required. (And especially for the neuro-divergant/nerd population.) Why? Because for this exact reason-you do need to dress to the job, at least until you’re hired and you know how much “eccentric behavior” is allowed. How to interact with people in slightly more formal situations. Why you wear shoes of a certain kind to certain events. How to handle a meal and why you do things in a certain way. It is a language, and it is a language that most men and quite a few women are never taught, and they have to learn on their own. If they’re lucky.

      (My “cultural hate” thing? Dress shoes. Hate them all, and if I have to wear a ‘dressy’ shoe, I have a number of leather-top EMT-type sneakers that polish up nicely.)

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      1. Had a friend who used to live near one of the CA law schools, and she’d remark on how the young women, come interview-with-firms time, would totter around on heels. Hard to walk on heels when you’re used to Birkies or sneakers. Can’t say I blame them for avoiding heels for everyday, though.

        And I was spared this with my wife and daughter, who hardly ever wear make-up (or war paint): there’s ‘day’ make-up, and ‘evening’ make-up, and ‘special occasion’ make-up, and wearing the stuff out of time makes you look weird (pace Goth, for whom that’s largely the point, apparently).

        Being a guy, and impatient, I hated to wait for girlfriend to put on make-up; I successfully convinced her of the truth that she ordinarily looked great with minimal or none. Saved lots of money on makeup over 50 years!

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        1. I walked fine on five inch stilletos. RAN on them, on cobbles. I don’t know how.
          Had to give them up when I had kids, because one of my hips goes off if not on a very limited, very “supported” number of shoe brands, all of them flat. Ah well.

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          1. There is one brand of shoes that makes them consistently in my size. With me, it’s walk into a shoe store and ask if they have anything in my size, then walk out. At least 90% of the time. *Sigh*.

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            1. Yep. I came to Flyover County 22 years ago wearing size 13 shoes. Generally available, but not in all styles. (In the late 1960s, 13s were a bit rare, but some shoe stores kept them in stock. Dad threatened to hire my brothers and me to stomp out grass fires.)

              Much outdoor work later, my feet went to size 14. On rare occasions, I could find 14EE shoes in stores, though ordering them was more likely. Variability is an issue, with Red Wing bringing up the biggest problems. One set of boots nominally the same size as the same model 10+ years ago was small enough I couldn’t get them on. At least they take returns.

              Now, due to knee issues and various quirks, I’ve found that size 15 boots will fit, and the 14EE stuff is (barely) wearable, but not for very long. The best part of market day is coming home and getting into my ratty, seriously stretched out slip-ons. My next shoe orders will be 15s. Whee.

              Many shoe stores in town have closed, though stores like Fred Meyer and the Farm & Ranch stores have selections. Not that it helps for footwear, but I can get laces, and $SPOUSE can get shoes. Actually, Amazon gets most of that business now. I’ll order a bit directly from manufacturers’ web sites. (I’m having great luck with a pair of Danners now.)

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              2. “great luck with a pair of Danners“

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                Had custom Danners work boot ordered directly from the factory. Loved the Red Wings I had for the first summer, but they fell apart after 4 months (note, I am not generally hard on shoes let alone boots). Not made for bushwhacking. Needed real work boots. But they don’t make them in size 4.5 (er size 6.5 women). Danners wouldn’t make my work boot with the colleague recommended “smoke jumper’s heel” (allows digging in when going down hill) because by design the heal is oversized – “it’d be the whole boot”. Used those boots for the next 3 seasons, school field labs, and the following years working the yard and truck ramps. Boots finally died out of neglect … Great work boots, lousy regular hiking boots, though I did later wear out a pair of women Danners hiking boots, after a few decades.

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                1. I couldn’t figure out why the heel on wildland boots (I used workboots), but we usually either did small fires, or initial attack on larger ones. ODF handled the FS fire duties at least in our portion of the FWNF, so they got the more challenging jobs.

                  (We also had a really small “department” at that time. Strictly volunteer, no tax basis, though that changed a few years ago when we agreed to annexation with a neighboring department.)

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        2. “truth that she ordinarily looked great with minimal or none. Saved lots of money on makeup over 50 years!“

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          I hate makeup. Within minutes of having it on it gets washed off. I can’t stand to wear it. Haven’t touched it in decades. Saves a whole lot of money. Also can’t wear perfume which also saves money.

          I’ve never worn heels to an interview. I’d break something on the way to the interview.

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        3. As a theater kid, I discovered the joys of “character shoes,” heels vaguely first half of the 20th century that were designed for dancers. If I am in a situation where I have to wear heels, that level of support is required.

          As a further note, part of the issue with heels is that most designers make them up in a size, say 6-7, and then scale them up without recalibrating the balance points and heel design. You’ll see videos of professional models teetering or falling on heels, and that’s their job—but poor design is literally tripping them up. There are several YT videos of why most heels are painful and dangerous.

          I can verify that I once had a pair of 3″ heeled strappy sandals that were comfortable enough to play electric bass in—but when I was a bridesmaid wearing near-identical sandals, they were the most painful thing I had ever put on my feet. Design counts.

          I doubt that most new job seekers know how to test shoes for comfort as well as for looks. Character shoes are the only shoes I will buy online, since their sizing is strictly controlled at a level most fashion places don’t bother with. (If you know how many shoes professional dancers go through, you can see why. Ballet pointe shoes are insane when you look at the numbers.)

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            1. Maybe not as weird as you think—I have a number of friends who have had Crocs recommended to them by podiatrists. Apparently they’re well-made for foot support, which is why they are popular at all.

              The filmmakers of Idiocracy used them as the footwear because they thought they were a ridiculous trend, and are apparently a bit boggled by their actual popularity. They didn’t take comfort into account.

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      2. Do not know if the school is still doing this but son had etiquette class in middle school. Even had a fancy dinner that a parent was invited to. Son had grandpa as his guest. Does he remember any of it? If attending a fancy dinner, yes. To set one up? No. I wouldn’t know either, except I’ve read enough and know that “outside in” as each piece of the meal is served.

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        2. Miss Manners guide to excruciatingly correct behavior. We had loads of fun with this, as it came out when I was stationed at a base in Greenland. The rough rule of thumb for a very elaborate formal place setting is to work from the outside in, and the top down. Each plate and utensil is intended for a separate course, and removed as soon as the course is finished. We all tried our best to recall if any of us had ever seen a pair of grape scissors, though.

          Mom sent my brother and I to a local ‘cotillion’ to learn formal dancing, and party etiquette, which came in handy as an adult, especially when the Youth Center at another base held a dance and my Brownie troop girls were all in a twitter about it. I spent the whole of that meeting, clueing them in about the proper response to, “May I have this dance, Miss?”

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          1. Junior High had a club(?) that did ballroom dancing, but we were not part of the target demographic. The town was loaded with junior and senior executives, and still is, though the Catholic K-12 school siphoned off a bunch of them. It turned into a very Catholic-friendly suburb, partly due to huge old houses on decent sized lots. OTOH, haven’t been there in 10 years, so mileage will vary.

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        3. When I interviewed at big Wall Street Bank back in 1983, the interview ended at Harry’s Bar where they “treated” me to three large whiskeys. That was standard practice back in the day when holding one’s liquor was a key job qualification in banking.  My Dad was in the business so I was prepared and so got hired.  

          When I was in Prep School, we learned all sorts of useful skills like how to tie a bow tie and how to eat in public. Looking back, It was as important as any of the other stuff they tried to fill our heads with.  Then again, my mother came from a family that dressed for dinner.  the dress was rather threadbare by the time I came around, but dress they did up till my Grandmother’s death.

          My children know how to eat properly, what all the silverware is for, and what drink goes in what glass.  Their friends remark on it.  It’s a class marker, I think and it’s a measure of how low our upper class has fallen that they eat like pigs and swear like sailors. Now, I swear all the time, but don’t typically do so at dinner or around children,  O tempora, O mores.

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      3. Flat State U had a college of hotel and restaurant management, along with various dining halls and a business school. So twice a year they offered a Business Lunch Manners class, where you paid a small fee, wore interview appropriate attire, and had a nice meal while learning which fork to use, how to deal with awkward food if you had to, and what topics to avoid discussing unless the host began the conversation.

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    6. And sometimes a lack of cultural knowledge is inflicted upon people. My parents, for example, knew perfectly well how to dress and behave – yet they taught their children absolutely nothing about it. Not how to dress, how to talk, how to wear makeup or give a handshake – heck, not even that you should use facial tissues in public. Not. One. Thing.

      Nobody else explained either. It’s… really sad.

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  15. “But I feel as though they’re building up to something even bigger and more brazen.”

    And I think Trump is aware of it.

    They’ve been oddly fixated on 2030 as a target for many of their goals.

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      1. Actuarial tables.

        Most of the senior leadership realizes that if they don’t win by 2030, the odds that they will enjoy any kind of victory and the fruits of those conquests (short of a “black swan” event of human longevity extension) start to go down drastically. And it doesn’t help that they suspect that the junior leadership won’t win or are so hungry that they’ll eat the senior leadership alive before winning the “war.”

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        1. “it doesn’t help that they suspect that the junior leadership won’t win or are so hungry that they’ll eat the senior leadership alive before winning the “war.”“

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          We can hope. Because if their junior leadership does this, they are done as a party.

          Not that no opposition to the GOP is necessarily good either. There be power hungry people there too.

          Difference with President Trump is he was already rich and powerful in his own right. To be left alone all he had to do is stay away. Couldn’t do that. He isn’t there to make friends. He is there as much as anything to make a part of the world better for his grandchildren. He has a following that believes the same. Including us. Some of us just have to stay out of his way.

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          1. It will be telling to see what the results are of Hogg’s primary-the-insuffiently-leftist bit. Somebody’s going to suffer, but I don’t know who. If it’s Hogg, maybe the Donks would last a bit longer. If he succeeds, that will be very interesting. Not sure if it’s in the Chinese sense or not.

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    1. Hey I remember that show, it was called “The Future Is Wild”, I remember enjoying it , but I was A) Still a child and B Didn’t take it too seriously. Speculative Evolution is ultimately fun nonsense. Unfortunately it does get used alot to bash humanity, see author Baxter, Stephen.

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      1. I think we still have that on disk somewhere in the basement. Your standard fantasy role playing game master could do a better job of inventing new animals, with more plausible evolutionary paths.

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    2. The Cephalopods are the closest creatures to aliens that we have on Earth. They took a far different evolutionary path long ago (quite successfully). Aquatic (mostly), soft bodied (most of it) very prolific, very short lived, but with some growing to very large size. At least as intelligent as a dog or cat (how can one measure it?). And how can we communicate with them?

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      1. If someone wanted to do a take on “native aliens” – then have someone genetically engineer cephalopods like octopi with the chambered nautilus “don’t die after reproducing” genes. Add some time and stand back….

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  17. Leftroids identify with the Mayans and Aztecs. They sacrificed thousands of children and got no response from their gods. Rather than admit that the gods were false, they proclaimed that they just hadn’t sacrificed enough children.

    Rather like communism. 100 million corpses in mass graves are just not enough to usher in the Workers Paradise.

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  18. If you haven’t caught the whiff of put down in “neurotypical” you haven’t been listening. Now I’d give my left arm and a bit of the right to not have a mind that gallops in all ways at once, and to be able to achieve concentration and working on one thing at a time WITHOUT meds. But I don’t look down on the neurotypical. I just wish I could function like that.

    I’m not sure I’d want it, but dang if sometimes I don’t at least daydream about it along the lines of “I wish I could fly like a bird.”

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  19. In any culture there is an expectation that to thrive and gain status within it there are certain traits that should be adhered to. There are, usually very limited, ways to elevate one’s position that don’t meet those traits, but they are the very, very tail ends of the curve and must be done exactly right in order to not be ostracized from the culture.

    The last 60 years or so in this country we’ve had people trying to normalize the things that get you ostracized, claiming that not celebrating the abnormal is racism/sexism/whateverism. Hence we get street slang and prison fashion being pushed as normal. Or face tattoos and visible body piercings as acceptable in the button down business world. Flip flops and hot pants are not attire for all occasions, regardless of what social media influencers say.

    It is the same in any culture. Acting outside of the norms of that culture is frowned up whether it be San bushmen in South Africa, Amish farmers in Pennsylvania, Sàmi herders in Finland, Yolngu aborigines in Australia, or Anglo-Saxons in (formerly) Great Britain. Step outside the bounds of what is considered normal behavior and, at best, people will look at you funny. At worst they’ll kill you and maybe your entire family/tribe.

    It rather peeves me off when people insist that the reason they aren’t as successful in say, earning money and collecting fancy cars or expensive yachts, is because they’re black/brown/native/hispanic/minority du jour rather than the fact they don’t show up to work on time, study for the relevant skills, or keep from complaining publicly about their employer. If you want certain things, there are certain expectations you need to meet.

    sorry for the rant.

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    1. There’s a local charter that has business attire and basic work rules as part of their curriculum. They also have local business internships as credited classwork. Unsurprisingly, their targeted groups are from elements of society that maybe haven’t had these things modeled to them, but I’d bet their success rate (as measured in employable grads) is decently high.

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  20. For those with twit/x access, look up #deMS13.

    Just hysterically funny, in the ‘hmm, that’s kind of on the nose’ way.

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  22. Never forget, the Left doesn’t want us defeated, they want us dead. They’re not trying to Destroy Trump as much as they are trying to destroy and enslave the rest of us, Trump for all his faults is just in the way. They are even attacking their own politicians. Pass the popcorn and keep the powder dry.

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  23. So where does that leave my progressive Uncle, he is middle upper class his family is connected to the upper echelons of the Democrats party, he is a builder, so not directly working in politics, and while he cares he is very authoritarian, which I realized very starkly a few years ago when we talked about his favorite charity to volunteer with.

    he has helped with a vocational hands on builders trade training program for disadvantaged people. applicants get hands on training in building skills and then if they get through the program they get help getting a job. From his account it has been very helpful to the people who apply.

    Then he proceeded to expound on how they should expand the program to force people from disadvantaged neighborhoods to participate. I held my tongue and didn’t say, that sounds like slavery…

    So where do old school FDR democrats (did you know the CCC had forced conscription if a man was unmarried….? Learned that at a Museum last year) fit in the coming clash, the older white democrats who think if they are the slave master they will be wise and benevolent?

    also my opinion on helping people out is that the most important thing is the person and their decision to change (God can give grace to help too). A person who has decided to change will find help, so it’s great to help thru charity but it wouldn’t work as well or at all if forced.

    look at college degrees, their used to be a strong correlation between having a degree and long term success, so the left decided if everyone had a ‘magic’ college degree we’d all have long term success, except the degree was just a filter for people who got themselves together enough to get one.

    and that was a disjointed ramble, and why I have a physics degree despite reading between 20-60 books a year….

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  24. Good News And Bad News.

    The Bad News is that a student at Washing State University was attacked off-campus by a WSU instructor and a WSU staffer.

    The Good News is that the student wasn’t badly insured and the attackers were arrested.

    Also WSU fired the instructor and punished the staffer.

    https://www.theblaze.com/news/washington-state-u-punishes-instructor-staffer-charged-with-beating-up-trump-supporting-student-of-color-wearing-maga-hat?

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  25. Huh? My “Good News Bad News” post is in moderation.

    Only had one link so I don’t know the problem.

    Word Press Must Die!

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  26. The left have constantly tried to align themselves with European Nobility.

    I’m about ready to change my name to Defarge and take up knitting. But that sounds like more effort than those swine rate. Plus sharpening the blades is time-consuming and costly.

    I’ll buy them a Gospel tract and shake their dust off my feet.

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  27. “I’m questioning the taste.”

    The taste of brimstone, you mean?

    I finally watched The Sandman, that “great” comic made into a “great!” and “top rated!!!” television show by some bunch of “critically celebrated!!!” television weenies for Netflix. Having passed hard on the graphic novel when it came out in 1989 (when I was buying the full-output of Marvel every week, and most of DC as well, which tells you how bad it was), and having maintained these last 30 years that Neil Gaiman is a weenie, based on some novel of his I read back in the day…

    …my expectations were quite low.

    After fast-forwarding through all the gai parts, and the endless exposition/time filler conversations, and the horror parts, and the boring parts, and the torture parts (I really hate those) my very low expectations were met in every particular. It was annoying trash made tolerable only by my own -massive- editing of all the parts that sucked. A lot of it seemed aimed at harming my peace of mind, which failed because I FFed past all that.

    Looking back to 2021 when the Big Scandal was that those horrible nerds were objecting that the production black-washed a bunch of characters including Death, I have to say that the parts with Death in it (and most of the other black-washed characters) were not objectionable and the actress did a decent enough job of it that I did not FF those parts. The Librarian was also watchable, I didn’t FF much of her either.

    If this seems like faint praise, it is. I only “watched” it because there was nothing else worth even considering, and the production values were nice.

    Taste of brimstone indeed. If it were only one TV show, or one movie, or the occasional book, fair enough. Artistic expression, free country, all that stuff. Bit it isn’t one or two, or a dozen. Its EVERYTHING. All day long, every day, extra on a leap year. A diet of nothing but sulfur.

    That’s why I write my own. Trying to get that taste out of my mouth.

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  28. “FWIW

    Pushing the “seeking of traditional knowledge” is currently in fashion in Australia

    A helpful tip for anyone contemplating reading or who has read “Romancing the Primitive: the myth of the ecological aboriginal” by William J. Lines –

    is (IMO)

    “This is part the myth of the noble savage being at the very basis of their philosophy — Marx would be as nothing without his theories having mated with Rosseau — and the fact most people ATTRACTED to leftism, particularly at the level of becoming activists being… well… wrong ‘uns.”

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