I’ve been trawling the wilds of X again. In my defense it’s the only way to find out what is actually going on in the rest of the world that the press wishes to hide.
Anyway, I fell into a talk about the reflecting pool where the title was Decay is a Choice. Like this: apparently, as far as I understand (I don’t have the history on hand just now) the story goes like this: the Obama administration spent something like 300 million to have the reflecting pool be “ecologically minded.” Meaning it was either filling from a river or from grey water (I don’t remember which) and it was lined in a “natural” way or some crap. (I honestly can’t remember, though the post I read two weeks ago described what was done in oh so green sounding words, and all sorts of eco-techno nonsense (most eco-techno is nonsense because they don’t understand engineering and don’t know reality from a hole in the ground. They’re frankly iffy on reality beyond wordage.)
On the surface, this was done for ecological and green reasons, and of course all the usual suspects applauded, but what actually happened was that within two weeks — predictably — the reflecting pool was basically open sewage with algae and goose poop. AND THEY LET IT STAY LIKE THAT.
Now you can argue that this was because they couldn’t admit failure. Sure, you could. And it probably was part of it. Heaven knows the Little Man Who Wasn’t There (Obama) was absolutely loathe to admit he might fail/have failed at anything. Or done anything wrong.
But given his not-so-hidden hate-on for our country, you know and I know he got a secret (?) frisson from the fact that the reflecting pool, supposed to reflect a monument to America’s past, was in fact open sewage. In his tiny (not a reflection of intelligence but of pettiness) mind, this reflected the true state of our country and all that jazz. In fact, at the same time they were tearing down monuments to our past and covering others in graffiti.
A post on ex, the one entitled “Decay is a Choice” was in fact hypothesizing that the left does this stuff on purpose.
I know it sounds far-fetched, but I’m sure he’s right. It’s a combination of four things:
1- They’re Marxist who think that wealth is a finite pie and somehow bringing America down will automagically bring everyone else up. (This is the opposite of reality. There should be a term for that. Not just false, but the actual opposite of reality. But Marxism is a reductionist and stupid lens to view things through.)
2- They are straight up oikophobes, imagining that places abroad, particularly those with people who tan are full of natural communists. America isn’t so America must be eeeevil. And therefore they hate us and want us to suffer.
3- They genuinely straight up love decay, filth and nastiness. You see, they are upper class keyboard muffins (thank you shesellsseashells for the lovely term) who have never experienced nastiness. To them this is what “authentic” means as opposed to their lives which they experience as plastic and too nice. For some it might be a cover for guilt for their unearned riches. For others it’s simply a kink. Nostalgie de la boue.
4- They are despicable sadists who get off on making everyone suffer. This goes with their illusion of being “elite” and wanting the “peasants” to be humiliated.
At this point you guys are looking at me like I’m nuts, but really cast your mind on the administration of the autopen and tell me if those points don’t unify everything they did, from the open border bringing in the dregs of the third world (not sending their best is the best case scenario. Most places were sending their utter worst), to letting gangs run rampant, to defunding the police, to indoctrinating kiddies on the stupid idea that slavery was the point of the country, to taking our money and giving it to people who hate our country, to not letting us have the energy we need as an industrial society, to– Everything they did really.
From the outside, it looked like America was decaying, but the decay was not organic. Decay was a choice and the choice wasn’t ours, but imposed from above.
Decay is a choice.
And it only goes on until the people decide enough is enough. Let me put it this way, as the um…. spicy stuff going on the other side of the pond shows? Decay only goes on until the governed decide they’ve had enough.
And we’ve had just about enough. We’re not getting spicy because FOR NOW our government is combating the decay.
However, California should take notice of what’s going on the other side of the pond. Because not only is decay a choice, IT IS NEVER THE CHOICE OF NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS. And it is never the choice for people who live in it. People prefer living in clean surroundings and being safe. Most normal people want to work, have a home, have a stable relationship and raise fat babies.
Anything else is being imposed upon them by a plague of academics who, for the reasons listed above (and probably others) decided that the West and PARTICULARLY America deserved decay and decline. And since they’d actually never understood decay and decline, they decided to impose it from above. Which means it’s not real. It’s Kay-fab decay and decline. Which–
People don’t like. The encoprofication of reality is not the preference of normal, healthy human beings. Of which, thank the good Lord, the US still has plenty, whatever the news tell you. (I didn’t even list above the decay of our education, which is very much a choice. There’s nothing wrong with the minds of the young. Our education establishment has worked really hard at preventing them from learning, is all.)
It is important for everyone — yes, particularly you, doomer 23900 in your dungeon — to realize that encoprofication (From coprolite) is not real. It’s a choice. It’s a mod on reality. There is no reason for it to exist. Just like there was never any real reason to stop building nuclear plants; there was never any real reason for not producing oil in the US; there was never any reason to let mentally ill and drug addicts turn our cities into cesspools; there was never any reason to destroy and spit on our past.
It is the choice of a cultural minority, which has installed itself in the seats of power and for whom this is an aesthetic and possibly sexual choice.
It is NOT OURS. And there’s no reason to allow the small group of shit-aesthetes any power.
It’s time to push their noses in. Before the necessity comes to us that came to people across the pond. Because that necessity comes with a lot of horrible choices and also inevitable pain I don’t wish on our land.
So go forth. Build under, build over, build around. Make things beautiful, shining, prosperous. There’s nothiing wrong with that, and no reason to feel ashamed of preferring it.
And annoy a Marxist today. Yes, I now it’s easy. But also every time a Marxist cries an angel gets its wings. And I don’t care if you don’t believe in angels, just do it anyway.
Go be clean and happy. And if you still can, raise fat babies. If you can’t, help someone else raise fat babies.
There’s a lot of angels needing wings.
According To Hoyt 
I also figure they’re having a hissy fit about the reflecting pool in particular not only because it’s been cleaned and restored, but it was done so at a FRACTION of the cost and time that was proposed under the previous administration. So it proves that their “Look how much money and time this is going to take, so why even try?” is utterly false, but also that when they DO attempt it (always with massive delays and ballooning costs and somehow it ends up in the same condition it was before) someone (several someones) get a big fat cut of that “cost.”
And they didn’t get it. It was done quickly, efficiently, and for really very little money. And hoo boy do they HATE that proof that things CAN be done that way, and done well.
And of course the usual suspects where the perfect is the enemy of the good. Comment seen on a photo: “Well, it’s gonna get algae in it so it was just a waste.”
Because still water acting like still water (even if treated) of course means we must instead just have an open cesspool because it can’t be perfect pure water forever.
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Of course it could always have been done for less – much less – but that only pays the builders/workers/producers, not the looters who believe they deserve 97% of the funds for trading papers from desk to desk and holding endless, pointless meetings and conferences.
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Like academic grants, where the official grant getter is fortunate to get 70% of the money, with only 30% going to the university administration. I’ve been told that some colleges take 90%. Alas, that would not surprise me.
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This has been going up for a while. When my wife was a Grad Student, the vigorish/percent at a decent local University was 25% (C. 1985), and the NSF complained that that was on the high side. But because the universities have been adding overhead staff at a fierce rate, folks she knows at research universities report 33% to 40% is now standard taken from grants. It is not uncommon for the paid non-teaching staff to outnumber the Undergraduates (E.G. Yale University). Originally the fees were meant to supply the university with money for overhead, Buildings, labs, Libraries, Subscriptions to journals, etc. Right now it seems to fund the 6 figure plus salaries for a legion of Deans of Left Handed Two Spirit Nose Picking (I jest in the title, but not by much).
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I go ‘should we have so many undergraduates in all these programs’, and ‘does this program belong with these other programs’.
Should we be using ABET accredited university programs as the first post-secondary stage of training engineers?
Should we have PhD programs as part of the educational opportunities that engineers can use to further their skills and knowledge?
One can look at the big broader picture of academia, and then construct some arguments that we should not.
Are those persuasive arguments? maybe not.
Traditionally universities have been self-governed by faculty, but traditionally universities have not been built on Chomsky’s linguistics and on critical theory. Traditionally, they have not had quite so many undergrads to play with, and so helpfully curated an environment for pointing them at people as terror soldiers. (Okay, yeah, the conversion rate is shit, and many or most inmates are not being drawn into the worst activities. )
Fundamentally, the American people will not tolerate the faculty ruling them by having uncontested authority to on their own decide a number of important issues. The business of the university is trust, and rhetoric, the persuasion of people not taking a freshman class, is a fundamental skill for university faculty to practice. If they lose trust, the correct thing for faculty to do is to clearly look at the situation, reduce demands, and improve their persuasion skills.
The answer for a 1-3% minority, or a 0.3% minority, who has played a losing hand is not to escalate and try to shoot their way out.
Students like Luigi Mangione, Tyler Robinson, and Cole Allen are not a credit to their institutions or to their instructors. Quite probably they were too crazy to be fixed, no matter how competent their instruction was. But the flaws in their choices could be exacerbated by worse quality instruction.
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At this point, I’m pretty sure that all colleges take at least 50%, and for the “elite” institutions, those ratios are reversed: Harvard takes 70% of the money as “overhead” while at best 30% goes to doing whatever the grant is supposed to do.
I’ll say that the idea of overhead in general isn’t entirely undeserved. The researchers are working in university buildings and using university electricity, and—probably most importantly—relying on university secretaries and accountants to file their paperwork and handle their money.
But the level of it is ridiculous. Not only does it mean that, when the NIH says, “We’re giving 10 million for cancer research,” what they actually mean is, “We’re giving 3 million for cancer research, and 7 miilion to the general coffers of Harvard,” but it also means that professors (and schools) start to see their real jobs as getting grants, with teaching and even research being distractions.
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It was appropriate, though — D.C. is a sewer of corruption after all. ☹️
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To be fair, Washington DC was built on swamp.
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Yeah, there went the neighborhood. 😁
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That metaphorical relationship also exists in Boston. Much of the modern City is on landfill (i.e. garbage and construction junk) thrown in various swampy inlets in the city (E.G. Back Bay was originally a little wetland bay).
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DC should be improved by repossessing all the retrocession land area originally ceded to create the district back when. Put the DC workforce’s homes under DC governance, and the entire thing would improve. And the rest of Virginia would happily wave goodbye to the beltway worker voting block.
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“Comment seen on a photo: “Well, it’s gonna get algae in it so it was just a waste.””
I like how they ignore the fact that it looked nice from 1923 til <insert some recent date here> but claim that we have to accept that it will look horrible forever because reasons related to hating Donald Trump.
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I believe that one of the big reasons they hate Trump is because every day, at every level, he and his administration prove that governing is simply not that hard. Also, that the world needs America a LOT more than America needs the world.Like all the smarts are saying, “decay is a choice”, “turns out you can just DO things”, “it doesn’t have to be this way.”
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As our friend (in many places, even here I think) Hopalong Ginsberg likes to say “When you make peaceful change impossible, you make violent change inevitable.”
I am way too old for violent change, so I will go with working for peaceful change. And not “mostly peaceful” change, either, although it may come to that for a while.
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At this point you guys are looking at me like I’m nuts…
No, no, this explains a lot. Seen it in franchises, fandom, literature, and art. It’s almost never organic and it is always, always imposed by the elite (so-called) from above. The ones who want to cosplay being leaders as well as ragamuffins and chimney sweeps. Well, they can “step in time” right off my lawn and to the nearest deserted industrial park that is beyond use. They want to make that ugly, they can knock themselves out. But they should take their hands off my country, off my lawn, and off of everything else.
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Concur.
Sarah mispredicted where /I/ would object, I was on the same page there.
However, she was maybe not trying to preach to the choir, but the moderates, the squishes, and so forth.
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:tips hat: True. Many a moderate, however, has noticed the corruption in entertainment. Once the connection is made, it is nigh impossible to “unsee.”
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The Acolyte. Pfui.
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Teal’c voice, with the resonance of deep disgust Indeed.
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And as we’ve just seen, the respective powers that be would happily resuscitate The Acolyte, while letting the very long-running show that Teal’c was in fade into history.
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It’s all about “The Message”.
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You forgot to add the Critical Drinker voice. :P
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Yup. Exactly.
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Lets see which long running SciFi series can we wreck today? Star Wars, Check the prequels started that, every once and a while it resuscitates it, but the sequels and the Acolyte basically put a stake in that. Star Trek? Discovery did most of that, followed by Starfleet Academy, Beverly Hills 90210 in space wasn’t a sale. Lower Decks almost worked, but we killed that. Strange New Worlds manages to rise to doesn’t suck occasionally but we have that under control it won’t happen in season 4 or 5. After Marvel went gangbusters we managed to coprificate it with Lots of Sub par Product. It took a bit, but we managed. We just don’t get DC (although the animated stuff keeps popping out bangers against our heaviest efforts). Supergirl should put that to bed. Dr Who took two Bad Doctors and several years to kill but we’ve done it. What other titles are there to kill Babylon 5? Thunderbirds? UFO? Lost In Space? Time Tunnel? Land of the Giants? Ah Stargate has a pulse all of a sudden we can fix that.
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I’m hoping Farscape stays ignored but I have my DVDs if it doesn’t.
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The wrap up movie for Farscape might have already done that. 😅
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Name and shame: The guy hired over from Netflix in February, Brett Fetter, killed it, because (according to the industry press where the story broke) he decided it would appeal too much to the original dedicated fanbase of the Stargate shows.
Word is he kept sending script notes to Gero because he wanted to… (wait for it)… alter major canon elements to appeal to [drinker voice] a modern audience.
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To me that show pretty much sums up the whole progressive deadly sin of Envy attitude: you love this, we’ll remake it the way WE want, and in the process we’ll kill everything you love, because that’s what we do.
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I’ve seen them gloat about this.
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The only upside of stuff like that is watching Youtubers drag it.
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It’s the new Hollyweird Formula:
* Take something great
* Destroy everything that made it great
* Blame ‘White Supremacy!!’ when nobody wants it
Mostly Peaceful Protests™ optional.
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Amen Sister Sarah!!!!!!
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Yes.
MAGA. the true message or theory of MAGA is encapsulated in two ideas. 1. Decay is a choice. As unpacked above. 2. Because it is specific academically maleducated vicious lunatics, you can just fire them, or route around them, and replace with sane, and things will improve at least a smidge.
This is the real reason these folks went so dramatically and actively insane over it.
Their whole thing was about the Emperor having the wise person visible clothes, and Trump was the little boy mentioning the nudity, and was being listened to.
It wasn’t about the racism, which was not there.
It wasn’t about some hypothetical program of national aggression, to rob the rest of the world by force.
It was only a little about the American matriarchy throwing a hissy fit on behalf of its rapist-enabler-in-chief, and about all the costs that those specific women have incurred trying to get their symbolic leadership egoboo.
It was about the gangrene of Obamaism grown from the septic infection of certain academic ideas.
OT, I have been getting ad copy from Her Bold Move, and I have not been able to look them up in DataRepublican’s tools. Maybe a hint as to capabilities and intentions of the enemy this mostly peaceful season.
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”Defund HR”
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BTW, if you’re in need of a white pill and frequent X, follow NOBUNAGA (@japan_nobunaga). It’s currently giving a daily description of his journey through America, from the viewpoint of a VERY traditional Japanes citizen (maybe Samurai? seems sort of right).It’s not humor, but it leaves you feeling good about just existing in America.
Today he posted about ordering eggs in a diner. Even simple choices can be viewed as transformational.
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Nobunaga’s feed is great. Endorsed.
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So is Freddy the German’s.
So far, he’s hit Waffle House, Buc-ee’s and Bass Pro Shop. Loves them all.
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Freddie about lost his mind at Buc-ee’s. ~:D
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I’m wondering when Freddy and the other Europeans traveling through the South are going to be condemned by the Good People for excusing the South’s inherent racism and inferiority.
I hope that doesn’t happen.
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Freddy’s a blast, but his just started (along with a few others) as he came over for the World Cup. Nobunaga’s been running for a few weeks now.
There’s at least one American account on X that puts up posts similar to Nobunaga’s but from the PoV of an American living in Japan. But it’s an obvious (though very clever) parody account.
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I believe he’s taken on the persona of Nobunaga Oda, a historical daimyo figure.
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I just wish he didn’t use AI to write it. I enjoy it, but it has all the tells of AI writing – not AI used as translation but AI used to generate the text.
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Am now following. Best quote so far, among many top contenders.
“There was a ranch labeled “secret recipe” that printed its ingredients on the back, which is not how secrets work, and I respect the audacity.”
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On the Eggs front that can be a challenge. I worked at a small lunch joint that did breakfasts to feed local fisherman and use up some of our leftover stock of various things (Waste is the bane of a small restaurant; it can literally eat your slim profit margins if you have a couple bad days breakfast can reduce that). A couple came in from Quebec province. The husband spoke some English, and I spoke slightly less French. I could come up with egg, fried and gestures suited for scrambled. But Over easy, Over medium, over Hard, Sunny side up? I had NO idea what those were in French, as it had nothing to do with my aunts pen is on the desk. Lady wanted Scrambled, Gentleman wanted fried, he got over easy because that is the most basic. all seemed happy overall. There is a WHOLE lot of detail that is NOT always obvious in the world.
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5.) They believe that if they can screw things up sufficiently, the “proletariat” will become enraged enough to rise up, reject capitalism, and embrace communism.
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I do believe they may have gotten one-third of that right. The “rise up” part.
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Yeah. They try and fit everything to one of the variants of Marxism. Things that don’t fit those models are seemingly outside of their ability to comprehend. Case in point, their assumption that the Tea Party rallies were astroturfed. That the common citizens would organically rally *against them* was outside the possibilities allowed by their worldview.
If they push hard enough, and if things get bad enough, there will be a rising up, just as they predict. But the rising up almost certainly will not be of the kind that they are expecting.
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Re: Astroturf
There’s this huge disconnect, from what I can see, about how people generate the opinions they share. See, publicly stated opinions are about showing allegiance to The Group and giving it a greater weight in generating consensus reality. And you discover The Group’s opinions by checking in with The Group’s sanctioned mouthpieces, at which point you repeat the approved opinions.
And since this is how you gain your opinions, it’s unpossible that someone might actually evaluate any of this stuff themselves; after all, if you tried to think up your own opinions you might disagree with The Group, and that’s something to be avoided at all costs.
Therefore ‘astroturfing’ is how all ideas are championed, it’s just that for some bizarre reason it’s considered bad form to be caught at it. Any idea must be the result of some opinion maker rather than a bunch of people bouncing ideas off each other, coming to similar conclusions, and grouping together after they have opinions in common.
The fact that the opinion group exists is all the proof needed that someone organized it, top-down.
Been thinking (or what passes for that in my head) because of a recent online kerfluffle where some loon thought it a difficult choice between continuing to (as they saw it) mindlessly ape some internet personality’s ideas and disagreeing with one bad take, with the not-quite-stated assumption that disagreeing with one bad take must necessarily include total and complete repudiation of the internet personality.
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Yeah, basically, there are at least two different fundamental methods to this stuff.
One is bits of disconnected ideas, memorized individually, and updated with the latest packet from a trusted synchronization source.
This is a feature of someone caring to fit in with an outer party or inner party, terrified of being cut from the herd and destroyed. These folks are basically influenced by communism, post Stalin communism in particular.
The performance is part of the magic that makes their goals happen, so it is a high priority.
The second is that ideas have implications, and are testable sets, not entirely individual. If one personally works out implications of interactions, then one is necessarily in error some of the time.
Yes, I am often suspecting that I am correct, and often calibrating as if I am correct, but wrong or in error can have a lot of meanings. As I work through math on my own, for example, I screw up frequently, and not following what people say is a good clue that there are some basics that I have not internalized enough. (Other people can be wrong, but some things are just a hint I went too fast, and didn’t learn important things.)
A recent example for that for me is looking for what I overlooked, and finding a very basic thing that I did not have memorized. So one basic model for a lumped component is v=di/dt, and another is i=dv/dt. And I do not quite recall today which word label is which math. I should be able to just deduce which from the math, but this morning before caffeine I cannot. (Deducing this is a harder task than recalling which once memorized, but still.)
To tolerate the second sort, groups must allow for the possibility of people having heretical opinions at times, while still being innocents by whatever the group’s standards for crime, punishment, and peace are. This is basically one element of why the communists are actually at war with everyone, and hence why the destruction of indiscriminate warfare follows them everywhere.
Speech magic, these days, is their go to explanation for all ills, the witch hiding under the bed or in the closet.
Stuff that is true, or good, or beautiful, or machines that actually work, are also speech. It is speech that they hate, because it is not subordinated to their ‘good’. And they are very angry especially about the latest failure of their own speech magic.
The post-Stalin synchronized Marxism is why heresy and wrongthink cause facism when it is communists, but basically do not do so for non-communists. Stalin was the first big desynchronization among modern communists, and the Italian Fascists and indirectly the NSDAP were among the results. Losing Obama was basically another major desynchronization, but other than that they are wrong to interpret things as they do.
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Forgot a key thing.
Pure thinkers of the first sort can be scholars in academia.
The pattern disqualifies them from the capability of doing science of their own.
Fundamentally, knowing of the first sort may identify as of and for science. It is not really valid science.
No amount of funding for academia and for scholars that are only first example thinkers can accomplish science. In that specific case, you can cut funding for ‘science’ to zero, and not actually cut any funding for science.
This is actually one of the more interesting general science findings or discoveries of the day. The bad scholarship that may have pushed out good scholarship.
The faculty have a marketing problem, and pretending that no trust issues exist is a way to double down on problems.
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Sharing your comment as its own post over on FB, credited to “Boobah.”
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Space X IPO tomorrow. Market opens at 9:30 EDT. Not investment advice, but I think it’s very expensive and the forecasts are for a wild day, I’m buying some anyway but be careful if you buy. Only buy what you can afford to lose because this is a binary bet, all or nothing.
as for the decay. Trump skipped the consultants, the environmental impact studies, the disparate impact analysis, and all the rest of the vigorish that the left harvests from the rest of us. That’s why they hate him so, he’s cutting their profit.
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If I have a university degree, and am proposing that someone ought to give me money, I ought to be able to make the case for that myself, without having government compel a bunch of stupid jobs programs into existence.
There are people still arguing for well rounded, but for me that died with critical theory, and with the internet making self study possible for me in the vast majority of academic fields. My self study might well be bad, but that basically does not matter if the official degree programs are actively worse.
I’m pretty much at the conclusion that degrees are potentially but not necessarily job training.
As job training, well, I just find myself hugely skeptical. Some of that skepticism, we could actually verify is merely my own personal insanity.
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I was toying with a story idea the other day, and set it aside. It was too dark, and there are more than enough of those on the bookstore shelves. We need more Human Wave stories, the kind that are fun, or at least heroic and noble, and that leave the reader in a better mental place than when he started. A lot of the dark romantasy plot synopses and opening pages give me the creeps, and not in a fun campy-horror sort of way.
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Cacophiles was a great term for #3 that I encountered oh, about 20 years ago in one of the few novels about the Nerd Rapture/Singularity that I enjoyed. It was a satisfying name for a phenomenon I had seen often even before then.
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The full-hard-communist incompetent moron (BIRM) mayor has not just told the normies to pound sand after they get a Coastal Commission permit, they’ve also told remaining quite wealthy H’wood elite to do so as well – that’s who was burned out as the fire rolled to the sea.
And the normies and those elite who have not yet moved away are seeing, through the high noon vote shenanigans, that this government is of the skid row paid voters, by the skid row paid voters, and for the skid row paid voters. The entire Pratt campaign was just the normies standing up. Thus the powerful being in a panic. The peasants are revolting.
I have a feeling, to quote every single TDS commentator ever, that “the walls are closing in.” When Federal investigations are opened, they basically are looking for people to cut a deal and start flipping on their bosses. Can the currently powerful really count on everyone all the way down to the ”activists” handing out cash to junkies for registering and voting keeping their lips zipped? Nah. Somebody is going to start singing, and then the race will be on to cut deals so you’re not the last person left standing when the music stops.
We shall see. But I have a feeling…
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Jimmy Fallon apparently mocked Spencer Pratt by stating that he (Fallon) would rent Pratt a U-Haul to leave the state when Pratt lost the election (Pratt has previously stated that if he loses, he’s moving away). Fallon apparently repeated this after the most recent (but still unofficial) results were announced.
What others have noted is that Fallon’s “joke” is insensitive at best, and shows just how clueless Fallon is in his bubble. The entire impetus for Pratt’s campaign was that his house burned down in the Palisades fire, and he lost nearly everything that he owned. He doesn’t need a U-Haul, as he’s currently living out of a hotel room in a nearby city since he still doesn’t have permission to rebuild his home.
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Necessary correction: it was Jimmy Kimmel (ABC), not Jimmy Fallon (NBC). I understand how hard it is to keep the voices of the late-night chorus distinct, but it’s worth doing.
And Pratt did respond to the U-Haul taunt by saying he didn’t need one: he lost everything in the fire.
I’m not one for obscene gestures, but I rather hope Mr. Pratt gives the city a Hoyt-style double-bird as he departs, recorded and posted to X.
Republica restituendae.
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Indeed Mr. Pratt should have a final video where he looks from his burnt out residence with his family, they brush the dust off their shoes, climb in the car and he tells them not to look back lest Mr’s Pratt end up a pillar of Salt. It’s a bit obscure for the LA types, but those that get it will enjoy it immensely.
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Ummm…it’s not ‘cropo’ it’s ‘copro’. A fossilized turd is a coprolite.
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Sir, you expect an absence of tyops? Optimist! (or on my first attempt: Optomist.)
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dyslexia strikes again. Remarkably consistent today. I’ve fixed. Thanks. I used to have a dino coprolite found in my backyard in Manitou. Lost it meanwhile.
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Thanks! That was bugging me too.
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Thanks! That was bugging me too.
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Yes, also noticed the “coprolite” vs. “cropolite” thing earlier, even guessed at “dyslexia strikes again” as leading explanation.
So, this means “encropofication” is really “encoprofication” instead? Sounds almost as good.
And I’m also likely to use “coprolitarian” for people who indulge in this, and/or call them members of the “coprolitariariat” henceforth.
(Any resemblance, phonetic or otherwise, to “co-proletarian” etc. is of course strictly intentional. After all, so much of ‘Marxian scholarship’ and ‘critical theory’ can indeed be compared to fossil-turd polishing.)
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And up there “coprolitariariat” ought to be “coprolitariat” — it seems the dyslexia is not entirely non-contagious (though my Bluetooth keyboard being briefly demi-haunted might also help to explain).
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They want things to be ugly and dirty for us because they think that is what our country deserves for its many sins.
Evil and bad countries full of evil and bad colonizers should live in ugliness and filth. Especially capitalists, the jerks.
Only the pure as the driven snow indigenous people should live in the idyllic paradise that existed before the colonizers ruined everything.
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It also means that the money that would otherwise be spent on cleaning things up can be sidetracked to the pockets of themselves and their supporters.
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They worship entropy.
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I hate to disagree but they worship themselves and perhaps an idealized Nature that bears as much resemblance to nature red in tooth and claw as does the Noble Savage to the actual state of neolithic hunter gather /early farming peoples. Entropy just is and Life just does. A shallow basin of water will soon have algae and plant matter and fill up unless a biome can be maintained (hard in shallow water that can vary from frozen to 80 degrees farenheit) that can balance the growth. But never actually having interacted with real nature, they are unaware of pond scum (unless they interact wit their politicians on a regular basis).
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Hey, hey, don’t besmirch pond scum by comparing it to politicians! 😛
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…just not on their sidewalk.
Applies up in the City and County of San Francisco as well – no matter how much fecal and hypodermic matter and “camping” the city by the bay saw, the street Nancy
Pelosi’s congressional district qualifying house was on was clean and tent-free, with SFPD response far faster than elsewhere. Because equity, obviously.
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“Some animals are more equal than others.” ☹️
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It explains a lot. The continual degradation of our cities, roads, structures, schools, pretty much everything they have gotten control of. They hate and want to punish all of western society and the people in it for not being good little marxists and obeying their every whim. Run things into the ground and if they do build something it will have all the appeal (and quality) of a soviet stack-a-prole apt. block. And they will be sure to skim off most of the money for themselves while doing so.
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“cropolite”? Did you mean coprolite?
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See above comment. :)
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Ugly and decayed. That sounds like most of what the lefties have done, even for new constructions. Witness the Obama “library”. I used to know that area of Chicago fairly well, and that sticks out like a not-so fossilized turd.
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I left a comment on Come the Revolution replying to Junior, which appears to have gone into moderation. Could someone fish it out?
P.S. And then my other comment on Come the Revolution, asking for my first comment to be fished out of moderation, also went into moderation. Hence why I’m posting here.
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Nice place, moderation. The people are nice, and the weather’s nice and moderate too. Nice place to visit once in a while. Wouldn’t want to be stuck with too much moderation, though. Over moderation can do things to you. Things you don’t want to see. Things no one wants to see.
(Sounds of UH-1s in the distance).
The horror, the horror…
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“A post on ex, the one entitled “Decay is a Choice” was in fact hypothesizing that the left does this stuff on purpose.”
Of course they do. It’s a propaganda ploy. Let the monuments of old fall into disrepair and disrepute, let the people defacing them face no reprimands or consequences, and you make unserious Normies who don’t notice things think that those monuments are old news and not important.
See Canaduh for countless egregious examples. They’re letting the entire f-ing country go the way of the Reflecting Pool, and they’re IMPORTING VANDALS to speed things up.
Not just a choice, it’s government policy.
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Same thing as “this feature is deprecated” in the software world, transposed to the political (or worse simply real) world.
And so often my response is identical, “I just plain don’t care what the Kool Kidz are thinking now, I just want it to work like always.” Full stop, as they say sometimes even in Kool KIdz Land.
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One of the things I like about Japan is that despite the falling birthrate etc etc, decay is NOT a choice they make.
Yes there are plenty of decrepit abandoned buildings and so on, but there are also plenty of new ones. In fact the problem with Japan is more that rather than repair and update an old building they seem to prefer to knock it down and start from scratch.
Relatedly the idea of permitting squalor like the homeless encampments in US cities is not at all a thing in Japan. There was an increase in the homeless in the 1990s and 2000s and it took a while for bureaucracy to do its thing but there are effectively no homeless in Japan and haven’t been for a decade plus. Even in the early 2000s when there were significant homeless, the homeless encampments were (for homeless encampments) tidy and organized.
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And they’re planning ahead. A few months ago, I mentioned how one article I read talked about a meeting of representatives from various universities around that country. And a government official got up and starkly warned them that in twenty years, half of them wouldn’t in attendance. The unstated sub-text was that due to the falling birthrate, the missing universities would be the ones that had been forced to shut down due to lack of students attending.
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At 68, I probably shouldn’t be making more babies; but moreso because my wife is past the baby-making stage and it’s considered poor form (at best) to make other women pregnant.
Even if it was okay and I could still assist them, I wouldn’t be around enough to raise the children, so that is not what America needs.
So please, you youngsters, get frisky… and have a couple for me!!
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Our Hostess added a list of features of the left, May I add
5- they are inveterate narcissists raised in a tiny bubble of ideas drinking their own ink. Obama and Clinton are two classic examples of this. The left view EVERYTHING in respect to what it takes from them. They have almost 0 empathy for others, though they feign it. Oddly, their philosophy with respect to people is a communitarian one, but the result they actually desire is a strict hierarchy with their illustrious selves at the peak.
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Should that be ‘inveterate narcissists’ or ‘invertebrate narcissists’? 😛
Or both. Can always be both.
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I meant the first But the second also allies. Embrace the power of AND
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SpaceX has started trading, now up into the $170’s from the $135 IPO price. I put in for 35 shares, and got 11. Where it will go, only time will tell.
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