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My Statist Friends…

211006 — “That’s a good thing!”
Many of my statist friends who remember passing Philosophy 101 object to my comparing the government to the Mafia. They say I’m trying to compare apples to oranges. They may have a point, over-broad comparisons can often be more distracting than helpful, so they should always be used with caution.
However… apples? oranges? These are both GOOD things!
Comparing government to other criminal organizations is more like comparing hemlock to nightshade.

210921 — The Trouble with Logic
Did a wicked God create cancer, diabetes, and mosquitos,
Or is a weak God unable to protect the innocent?

171227 — A Puppies and Rainbows Act
American partisan politics has been replete with lies since its inception. America’s first political party consisted of centralist nationalists, and they called themselves “Federalists”. That left the actual federalists (including the authors of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions) to call themselves “Democratic Republicans” (surviving unto this day as the Democrat party, the oldest living political party on Earth).
Just as the names stuck, so too did the mendacious traditions of our partisan “Representatives.” They constantly flaunt their falsehoods, from the “PATRIOT ACT” to RomneyCare 2.0 (“If you like your policy, you can keep it!”) to “Net Neutrality”.
Rest assured, if the Congress were to pass a Puppies and Rainbows Act, a careful reading of it would reveal its true designs to incinerate enough puppies so as to pump enough particulate matter into the atmosphere as to render rainbows impossible.

171202  —  “[Do you] take EBT?”
This question is actually better than arrogantly assuming that we DO accept your Electric Biscuit Ticket, so thanks for asking.
The QuikkStopp does NOT accept “food stamps” or honor your EBT card because it is already annoying enough to be paying for your groceries. Obliging me to participate in my own abuse and to witness your squandering of my stolen money on candy, chips, and “energy” drinks just makes it worse.
Buy your own crap. I know you have cash, I just sold you lottery tickets.

020630  —  “Campaign Finance Reform…”
.. is a cynical fraud. It constitutes an Incumbent Protection Racket by erecting unreasonably high hurdles for challengers. It is particularly unjust to independent party candidates. I prefer the First Amendment. Hard money or Soft, let any person give any amount to any candidate, any party, or any PAC.

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Small Gifts from NPR*

14 September 2021

“You’re listening……………………………. to dead air!”

If you prefer a somnolent narrative pace that would never presume to jar you into any semblance of alertness, or if you’re interested in occasional stories of depth or substance, or even some late breaking developments, then NPR may have something for you. However, if you can only take so much of their unctuous superiority or earnest adolescent angst that crowds out actual news, you might appreciate these regular flags that are used by alert listeners to warn them of yet another of their “more hip and caring than thou” diversions away from useful information.

If you hear any of the following expressions used in their opening remarks, you may be assured that they’re getting ready to insult your intelligence and your character, or simply to waste your time:

“Lived experience…”   “Equity…”  “Authentic voices…”  
“Whose preferred pronouns are…”  
“Reaching out to marginalized communities…”
“Democratic leaders…” “Republican ideologues…”
“Third party spoilers…”

You’re welcome.

(* — Nitwits Posturing Righteously)

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The Privileged Poor

3 December 2017

(Some very dear) Leftie friends of mine have been taking pains of late to school me on “White Privilege.” I still don’t buy it, but I guess I get it. You have to redefine it so that it no longer means “Private Law” (literally) or “Elite access” (generally) but rather “relative freedom from inconvenience or danger or suspicion.” Okeh, if that’s our metric, since the police rarely think that I resemble any suspects on their beats, then I’m “privileged.”

Who else is privileged? Well, everybody who still doesn’t require corrective lenses. I could go for some of that privilege. But I shouldn’t grouse, I still have both legs, arms, ears, eyes, kidneys, and testicles, so I guess I’m plenty privileged. Furthermore, if I make a lot of bad decisions for a couple of decades, I just might win me a Privileged Parking Pass, then I could park right up front at McGreasetrap’s™.

Such an inclusive definition of “Privilege” is so sophist and specious as to render it of little value in coherent discourse.

On the other hand, considering that some forty plus per cent (or more?) of Americans PAY NO INCOME TAX, the Lefties have given me a supportable argument (on THEIR alleged merits) to refer to them henceforth as The Privileged Poor.

update 171205:  correspondent ML writes “No… you still don’t get it cause you don’t wanna get it. The fast and loose playing with statistics — like that forty per cent comment (why d’ya suppose they don’t pay income tax?) reveal a mind that is closed to new information and only being used for snarky debate tactics, so sad [bemoanji] — such a waste of a potentially first rate intelligence.”

I’ve addressed the personal insults on another forum (FascBuch). To the substantial portion of the response, and the only actual question: The Privileged Poor pay no income tax because the progressive income tax excludes the lowest echelons. The Privileged Poor DO pay taxes, as do we all — consumption, excise, and the corporate income tax component of just about every product that we buy. So of course, they definitely have cause not to FEEL particularly “privileged.“ Which is just what their civil masters want, as a large cadre of jealousy and resentment are the perfect clay to be molded into Gimmecrat voters. What keeps The Privileged Poor in those (income) tax brackets? Well, in addition to their own misbehavior (bears mentioning and dismissing, as bad choices are rife throughout the human spectrum) there is government action.
Minimum Wage legislation criminalizes apprenticeships and training wages. If a person can only bring fourteen bucks of value to an employer, a fifteen buck concrete barrier precludes many from taking that first step.
Licensing and regulation exist (contrary to their rhetoric) to protect entrenched contributors from competition, thereby denying The Privileged Poor their natural human right to pursue their own entrepreneurial aspirations.

update 171225:  correspondent and creative reader ML discerns other than blank space between the lines: “So forty per cent of the population is poor enough not to pay taxes because of their own misbehavior??”

To repeat and amplify, let’s DO make it personal. The reason that I remain generally among The Privileged Poor probably IS due to my own misbehavior, beginning in school with my inability to “play well with others” and culminating in my refusal to submit to the requirements to receive a Certificate of Approval from Spartan High. Once into the job market, I still usually failed. In addition to my unwillingness to give 110%, kick it up a notch, or take it to the next level, I was also nowhere near as good as Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer at pretending to care about people nor as skillful as Charlie Manson or Jim Jones at inspiring subordinates. And, of course, I consistently failed to reach for the rectum during job interviews.

But that’s just me. I am hardly representative of The Privileged Poor. Nevertheless, that’s why it “bears mentioning”, because there ARE a few like me, and your adversaries WILL bring us up. And it is worth dismissing because we are anomalies. MOST of The Privileged Poor are blocked by minimum wages, licensing boards, arbitrary regulations designed to thwart would be competitors to your loving legislature’s corporate sponsors (Halliburton, Solyndra, et al) and a whole host of interfering bureaucrat buttinskies.

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Irreligious Convictions

5 September 2021

I do not speak for “pro-life atheists,” because I am not all of them.  I speak for me, a pro-life atheist, and I believe that abortion is homicide, because it extinguishes a genetically distinct human organism.  Once the fetus develops a functioning nervous system, and is capable of feeling pain, it is also torture.  It isn’t necessarily “murder,” as some homicides are justified, and some are accidents, but they are all homicides if human organisms die.

I do not speak for “pro-choice atheists,” because I am not all of them.  I speak for me, and I understand that in medicine and in physiology, there is no such thing as a risk-free procedure nor a risk-free condition.  When it comes to statistical mortality, two things are certain:  pregnancy kills women and abortion kills women.  I believe that there is ONE person in each scenario who is most qualified to evaluate those risks and to choose which to reject or to embrace, and it isn’t her doctor, her parents, her sweetie, or her god.

And of course, as an anarchist, I also don’t believe that it is the state.

(For those wishing to turn up the angst, for “pro-choice” you may substitute “baby killer” and for “pro-life” you may substitute “fetal fetishist.”  I know that many on both sides of this issue are much more passionate than I am, and also that “th’Irish nivver let agrrreement get in th’way of a gud fi’t!”)

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Heisenberg May Be Red

4 August 2021

Having read a little bit of Rene Descartes and David Hume and Robert Heinlein by the time I was about fourteen, I decided I should call myself an empiricist, insofar as “atheist” and “anarchist” were probably still fightin’ words around that time, and I’ve always been terrified of confrontation.  Since then, of course, I’ve become comfortable with more radical claims. 

I made the mistake once of suggesting to an ardent Randroid that I could probably be considered an objectivist, even if not an orthodox Randian. 

He set me straight immediately.  There was no such thing as “probably an objectivist.” So I said that if an objectivist were locked in Schroedinger’s Box with a radioactive particle and a death-switch then that would certainly constitute a “probable objectivist.” 

Randroids also don’t like quantum mechanical jokes.

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Transtrendyrism™

6 July 2017

I don’t make a great deal of the alleged “transgender anomaly” running through our bloodline (according to my son, who wonders about a possible genetic component.) When the fifteen year old grandniece declared that “last year” she had “definitely” been a lesbian, and now was “definitely a boy”. I concluded that she was definitely fifteen.

I was naturally relieved to learn of the fourteen year old grandniece’s safe return, and not terribly surprised to learn of her current re-identification. If she prefers “Ky” (or, original Greek spelling: “X”) to the perceived abomination that her parents tried tagging her with, well, I can certainly relate to that.

I was surprised when son informed me that sixteen year old grandniece had also hopped aboard the trendy new trans trolley. She had previously struck me as being rather affirmatively and comfortably feminine. But, it’s her call, I guess.

I reckon adolescents likely know themselves well enough to decide these things, but…

My own grandson, apparently now “identifies as female.” Sadly, this doesn’t surprise me all that much. Early reports had him a rambunctious force of nature, bounding through life with boyish vigor.

But boyish vigor is an unpopular commodity these days. We are living in a culture that celebrates and glorifies womanhood, exalts victimhood, and denigrates patriarchy, rape culture, and well, boyish vigor. Boyish energy is so unwelcome at the government schools that many offenders are tranked into ambulatory somnolence lest they offend the sacred order.

And of course, the lad has an assertive older sister. And parents who are deeply steeped in Leftie Culture. (Girls are cool! Girls are powerful! Toxic masculinity! Pay gap! Misogynist in the White House! Love Trumps Hate! Trans is trendy!) We are pack animals, after all, and popular opinion will usually win out, as most of us are eager to be one of the cool kids.

So, summing up: Instant granddaughter.
Or, not so fast. These issues will either be grown out of or grown into

I will ever endeavor to attend to the preferred proper nouns that people pick out for themselves, so long as they seem to be taking themselves seriously. But until jobs are secured, money is spent, and surgeries are performed, or other commensurate commitments are demonstrated, I’m going to stick with the pronouns that I’ve been using.

update 201119:  this writer goes into greater detail on the boring technical details

https://aberrosexualism.blogspot.com/2014/03/normal-0-21-false-false-false-en-us-x.html?m=1

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The Fixed Game

correspondent KJ asks:
“Why do people confuse corporate capitalism with libertarianism?”

correspondent Bret Hinowi is also particularly puzzled, insofar as “corporatism is bipartisan policy. They seem to want to defend it and oppose it at the same time.”

I too am sad, but hopeful anyway, as long as there are still people like me around to come up with answers to KJ’s and others’ questions. Maybe the insights are helpful.

People don’t like thinking.
Thinking is hard. It’s easier to equate tropes.
Corporadoes and Banksters deal in money and “capitalists are all about making money” so therefore our corporatist (or “fascist,” Benito had a hard time deciding which) status quo is called “capitalist” in spite of the mountains of impedimenta erected by the state, and the special favors offered to loyal campaign contributors.

Leftists, mystics, and children believe that buying bureaucrats and legislators are “free market” activities. PJ O’Rourke reminds us that when legislatures are charged with deciding what gets bought or sold, then the first things bought or sold are legislators.

We don’t need to get all the big money out of politics.
We need to get all the big politics out of our money.

correspondent Von Tietje wonders: “How many actual scientists do you know?“

Golly, in light of my Mom once asserting that she knew me better than I knew myself, I have to doubt if I really know any other scientists either.

So… let’s pretend it’s zero. How would that disqualify me from analyzing mathematical models or understanding the difference between the literal and the allegorical? Many lay enthusiasts are well versed in arcana outside their professions. A draft dodger can be an astute military analyst and a paraplegic can be well schooled in baseball, and I may not even be an actual scientist or engineer.
Maybe, like Charlie, “I’m not even here!”

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“GI” = “Guilty Indeed”

12 June 2021

I don’t hide the fact that I am a reformed terrorist (Strategic Air Command, ca. 1980), so it is hardly hypocritical of me to follow the lead of leftists and paint people with broad brushes.  (But in my case, for the sake of fun-filled rhetoric, of course!)

My brother and I both indentured ourselves to the War (“Defense”) Department during the same time that the F’eral Government (on behalf of “Our Democracy”) was violently suppressing cannabis and free enterprise.  Therefore, as GIs, we were fighting to have peaceful potheads and merchants beaten up and thrown into cages.  You may dispute that as stupid, provocative, and faulty reasoning (and so would I), but I merely follow the same path I’ve heard since childhood.

Robert E. Lee fought for the Commonwealth of Virginia at a time when Virginia violently protected the legal institution of slavery, therefore Lee fought for slavery.  In fact, it was Lee, the Abolitionist who wrote that “[S]lavery as an institution is a moral and political evil,” who surrendered to Grant, the last legal slave owner in Richmond, who only freed his slaves when the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment finally forced his hand.

Putting relevance aside, I wonder today: 
Is an affable goof who confidently misspells “potatoe” really worse than a superficial fraud who can’t decide which pronunciation of her given name (“Cam a luh” or “Comma law” or “kuh Maula”) has the greatest ethnic heft? And were they both put into their lofty positions to make doddering ex-Vice Presidents seem not so bad after all?

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‘Merica’s Spankin’

8 June 1967

Oy, Gevalt!  Such a schmeck they have given us! 

Those goyim houseboys, Lyin’ Lyndon Johnson and Dandy Dean Rusk, no great mensches either one, got their tuchases tapped by their Zionist masters on June 8th of 1967, when Israeli “Defense” Forces attacked the USS Liberty as it presumed to sail through international waters, thereby killing thirty-four American Seamen.

They couldn’t just send a nice brisket and matzah instead?

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The Arcs of Acquiescence

1 June 2021

If you watch the sheeple defending their masters’ orthodoxies for a few decades, you’re apt to notice some patterns emerging.  Even when armed with mountains of evidence and unassailable reason, the responses are predictable. 

It starts:  “You’re crazy!  That’s impossible!  You’re making that up!  You’ll believe anything that Tjump (or I’ll-bomb-ya) says!  If I’ll-bomb-ya (or Tjump, or one of his toadies) says it, it can’t possibly be true.”

As the evidence adds up and the façade cracks, it evolves:  “Sure, it may be possible, but Dr Nozitol™ says it isn’t.  What do you know about it?  Are you a doctor (or structural engineer, or economist, or tax collector or other criminal)?  Okeh, maybe it’s feasible, but it’s still a stretch, and Dr Nozitol™ still says…”

Once the lie becomes unsustainable, and their masters move on to new crimes, the bleats begin to yield to the yawns:  “So what?  That’s old news, time to move on.  Everybody knows that.” 
And finally:  “Yeah?  So?  I knew that all along.”

correspondent BV (not Lee) wonders: what is it that bothers the anti maskers so much about Maskers masking themselves? So much hate toward them from the “We are the REAL HEROES for REFUSING to wear masks” crowd…..
correspondent SW wonders what BV is talking about.

And I wonder… Who are these “anti maskers?”
I may not golf but I’m not anti golfing.
And I generally don’t consider myself to be particularly heroic, either (I joined the Air Force, after all), even if my refusal to endure the vertical waterboarding did cost me my job. Some might consider my present masklessness more foolish than heroic, and as a certified coward (see USAF, above) I’m not about to dispute that, either.
I’m not “bothered” by people wearing masks, though I am often frustrated, as they are denying me potentially useful non-verbal information.
But that’s their prerogative.
Besides, I don’t know their personal histories. They may be as well motivated to mask up as I was in order to meet my preemie baby in the neo-natal ICU, or as I might be in order to protect my frail ol’ Granny.
I certainly don’t object to “them” the way some have objected to me.