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Saturday, December 02, 2023
Don't trust government with what matters
Thankless jobs?
There's probably no such thing as a truly "thankless" job.
If you're getting paid, you're getting thanks.
If you expect additional thanks on top of being paid, maybe you're asking for too much.
Even worthless "jobs" like those the pathetic BATFEces thugs do, are paid. Even though their "job" is a negative for society. I'd rather they be charged than paid. But political crooks thank them for harming society by paying them. Yet, I've heard (from a relative of one) of them whining that they aren't appreciated enough. They have no clue.
Maybe if you do hard volunteer work, and no one cares that you are making the world a better place, you might argue that you have a thankless job. (But is it a job in that case?) Otherwise, appreciate whatever form the thanks takes. Don't be greedy.
Friday, December 01, 2023
Archation culture
Some cultures are based on archation. I don't like or support those cultures.
Police (and other gang) culture, cultures that are overtly political, and any culture that calls for the destruction of "others" are all based on archation. They are not a net positive for the world.
You get what you dish out. It's often called self-defense.
If you are part of one of those archation-based cultures and anyone encourages others to fight back against your initiated violence or property violations you really can't complain. Or, I guess you can, but I won't take your complaints seriously because you're asking for it with what you dispense or support. My sympathy is going to be greatly limited by what you do.
A robber who gets killed in the act of mugging someone has reaped what he was sowing. Good.
Gang-bangers who get shot when they've spent years putting others in peril with their acts of aggression aren't going to get a tear from my eye.
I don't care about a cop killed "in the line of duty" when that "duty" involves violating the rights of people on a daily basis. Live by archation; die by archation.
The same goes for politicians who've spent decades imposing legislation designed to crush liberty. Good riddance to smelly garbage!
If you're a member of a cultural group known for killing anyone who isn't a member of your in group, don't be too surprised when I'm not enthusiastic in my condemnation of anyone who decides to strike back. Even if I don't support the way they strike back. You chose sides and you chose poorly. You chose a culture of archation over cooperation and mutual respect, so how can you demand cooperation and respect?
I don't support archation culture, and I am not sympathetic when its bloody chickens come home to roost.
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Uncanny Valley in politics
I see a couple of cases where I believe the "Uncanny Valley" phenomenon plays a role in politics. Where those who haven't been hypnotized by a particular political agenda aren't as sympathetic to a point of view as those who have been would like them to be.
It's not a "Left vs Right" thing, since I see a pretty clear example on each side: people trying to present as "transgender" (or "non-binary") and human fetuses.
Think past any of your own biases and I suspect you'll at least partly agree.
It's not a case of how people should feel about either issue; it's a harsh reality of human psychology. You might as well be fighting against gravity. Addressing this inherent reality might be necessary to get more universal support for either cause.
Or you can get mad at the messenger, but that's not going to change the truth.
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Wouldn't it make sense?
Doesn't it seem like the after-Thanksgiving special deal emails would be more effective if they went to family and friends of the person who was interested in those sales and had signed up with the businesses?
This isn't the time of year I take advantage of the great sale prices on AR magazines (for example) because I'm focused on getting gifts for other people. People who are getting the deal offers I need to see so I can get better prices on gifts for them.
Of course, if the advertisers figure out a way to do that, they will be (at least) a hundred times more intrusive.
And, I suppose some people probably are buying stuff for themselves now. So maybe this works well enough,
After Christmas or after my birthday-- times when I may have gotten some money to spend-- would be the best time for me to get special price offers. Not before Christmas, and certainly not right after Thanksgiving!
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Politics = lies
I am stunned at the tsunami of lies overrunning society. The most damaging ones are mainly political, or have a political reason for being pushed.
It has become clear to me that if it's political, it's a lie, and that if it's a lie, it's probably being used politically in some way.
No realm is immune: science, religion, justice, etc. And, of course, ALL of politics from top to bottom. All are being filled with lies to serve political agendas. Many are told "for your own good"-- at least that's the justifying lie.
I hate it.
The more political things you hear or read, the more lies you'll consume.
If it's political it's probably pointless to ask if it's a lie. Better, accept it's a lie and figure out why it's being told. Who is it targeting, and why? What's the truth?
It's not that one side is guilty and other sides are innocent-- even though it does appear that the side with the most power is generally the worst side. The side with the most power tells the biggest lies and tries to force everyone to pretend they aren't lies. That's probably just a result of having power. Which is why political power is illegitimate.
It's one thing to be told lies constantly. That's ordinary politics. It's a whole new level of evil to try to force people to repeat the lies as if they are true, and punish them when they won't buy in. Of course, for the same reason, inconvenient truth must be punished.
That's a line I won't tolerate, won't cross and won't forgive. I'm tired of it and it makes me angry. And it's the apparent main goal of the political liars all around us.
Monday, November 27, 2023
Does "your" v*te count?
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Ready for America to be free again
How long has it been since you heard someone say "It's a free country"? I used to hear it almost every day. I haven't heard anyone say this for years now. Another thing people no longer say is "This mammoth steak is delicious". No one says either phrase anymore for the same reason. No one is eating mammoth steaks and America isn't a free country...read the rest...
Saturday, November 25, 2023
Learn difference between right, wrong
Thursday, November 23, 2023
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Vice signaling
Most of what is called "virtue signaling" these days seems like the opposite. I guess that could be called vice signaling.
It's not even like they are necessarily supporting traditional vices, but their support of certain things and groups who act in certain ways-- and the way they signal that support-- is a vice.
Not disavowing climate activists who destroy property and threaten life and liberty is vice signaling. As is going along with the pronoun clowns and pulling your ads from X because some political thugs-- who embody the opposite of what they claim-- told you to. Pushing ESG, DEI, CRT, and all the other racist, sexist, and antisocial programs is vice signaling. So is support for the Palestinian government.
But so is unwavering support for the military and police and what gets mistaken for "patriotism" these days. As well as support for the Israeli government.
Be glad when someone vice signals. They are telling you who they are and what sort of sickness they are willing to embrace.
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
"It's a constitutional right!"
Declaring something to be a constitutional right doesn’t mean it’s actually a right. It just means that’s the current opinion of the regional political criminals.
They could be right or wrong.
Just like if something that is a natural human right isn't "protected" [sic] by the Constitution. It's still a right, just the same.
This is why it's dangerous to focus too much on documents and what government is, or is not, willing to acknowledge as a right.
If government gets it right, go with that. If they get it wrong, ignore their opinion.
"When in the course of human events" > "We the People", every time.
Monday, November 20, 2023
If you had to choose only one…
Often I’ll see people discussing which *something* they would choose if they had to “choose only one”. Frequently this is on the topic of guns, but I think it applies to just about anything. Cars, knives, friends, flashlights, shoes, clothes... it seems this is an almost endless rabbit hole.
What I suspect might be a better question is, could you make do with whatever you find yourself left with?
Using firearms as the convenient example, if you didn’t have a choice, but found yourself in a bad situation with only one of those you already own, could you make it work? Even if it weren’t the one you’d have chosen for the present situation.
If not, maybe you need to work on that.
That might mean trading off some that wouldn't work and getting some that would. Or it might involve honing your skills with everything you have available-- who knows which will be at your disposal in an emergency?
When TSHTF we often don’t get to choose what’s in our hand, pocket, or otherwise with us. I’ve been there and you probably have too. Can you use what you’ve got or will your world come tumbling down while you pine for what you wish you had instead?
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Government is always the enemy
If you aren’t against the institution of government yet, you will be. If you're still taking government's side, you haven't realized government considers you the enemy, and treats you as such. Actual criminals and terrorists are not government's top concern or seen as a real threat-- you and your liberty are, and have been far longer than you'd be comfortable admitting...read the rest...
Saturday, November 18, 2023
Any war is always a criminal act
-- Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler.
Retina update
I had a follow-up appointment with the retina surgeon yesterday (Friday the 17th). It went well.
The retina is healing like it should. I'm still on an eye drop, but only twice a day for the next three weeks. All restrictions are lifted and I got rid of the medical alert wristband.
The gas bubble had disappeared from my eye Wednesday afternoon, between 4:30 and 4:45-- which was a HUGE relief and improvement to my vision. I still can't see clearly out of my left eye, but it is much better than it was, and the surgeon said it will continue to improve until it gets to the point that the cataract (which will be accelerated by the surgery) becomes the limiting factor.
I am supposed to go back to see this surgeon in March, just so he can take one last look at things. Then he told me he'll help me find a good cataract surgeon, in my insurance network-- when I'm ready to have that taken care of.
I'll be glad when I can see the laptop screen with both eyes again, but until then I can make do.
Friday, November 17, 2023
Blocking traffic is an act of aggression
Maybe I'm unreasonable, but I've always considered being intentionally blocked in traffic to be a threat to my life. Yes, that would include cops doing it-- but in that case, I would probably be outgunned.
This is why I made the statement that got me banned for life from TwiXXer. They can punish me, but they can't make me believe I'm wrong. Because I'm not.
If you are blocking the road and I don't see a safe way past you, you may as well be holding a gun to my head and to the heads of everyone else in my vehicle. I will take this perceived threat seriously.
It doesn't matter if you are protesting climate change, protesting a murder by cop, or just demanding "equity". It could even be a protest against some new anti-gun legislation. Even if I would otherwise be on your side, when you trap me you're going to get a response you're not going to like. And I'll see you as the threat that needs to be dealt with. With as little force as necessary, but that's up to me to determine once you make the threat. I will do my best to escape.
I wouldn't block traffic unless it was necessary to defend life, liberty, or property and I was ready to back it up with deadly force. So that's what I'm going to assume of anyone blocking me in.
I do what I can to avoid places where this sort of nonsense is likely. I don't look for trouble. Funny how trouble doesn't always avoid people who don't seek it, though.
Thursday, November 16, 2023
What is "progress"?
According to Dictionary.com, progress is:
a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage:the progress of a student toward a degree.
developmental activity in science, technology, etc., especially with reference to the commercial opportunities created thereby or to the promotion of the material well-being of the public through the goods, techniques, or facilities created.
Political "progress", as embraced by "progressives", is usually movement to a lower stage; a backward movement toward a backward goal. Less than the alternative path.
Censorship to spare people from having to hear the truth-- or even lies-- is not a worthwhile goal, nor is it a higher stage.
The same goes for anti-defense rules. Barbaric and backward, not progress.
More slavery-- less liberty-- isn't a move in the right direction, no matter what your excuse might be.
I'd say that any new legislation always results in the opposite of progress.
To me, it is only progress if it moves closer to respecting the equal and identical natural rights and liberty of ALL humans. It involves removing government influence from all facets of life, not imposing more of it.
But, of course, to avoid thinking actual thoughts using words ("word-thinking"), you can call it what you want when someone wants more authoritarian control (backed with government violence) over your fellow humans.
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Pots and kettles
One of the most common flaws humans exhibit is criticizing someone for doing something we are also doing.
This is easy to see in others; harder to see in ourselves. I'm sure I do it, even though I don't often notice.
One example I run across all the time is on Scott Adams' live stream. Anytime he doesn't like someone else's point, which he can say is based on trying to win with a definition, he calls out their "word-thinking". Then he usually immediately does the exact same thing. But it's OK then, because he's making a point he likes. It's glaring to me when this happens.
I've seen him do this with the words "war", "woman", and others, where he criticizes the word as used by others, saying it doesn't mean anything; it's just a definition. And then he'll define some related word to make his own point. Recently he was harping on the word "war" and then, in trying to brush aside any comments using that word, used another word that his argument hinged on. (Sorry I don't remember the specifics at the moment.)
And I'm sure he doesn't realize what he's done and would block anyone who pointed it out.
Knowing I'm human and flawed is one reason I don't block people for pointing out my flaws and errors.
It does make me wonder though, I think in words. Sometimes supplemented with mental images, but always with words. Yes, I have an internal dialog that never shuts down; it's how I think.
Do others not do the same? Is there any other kind of human thought that doesn't rely heavily on words and what they mean?
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Why complicate matters?
Going back to yesterday's post, I believe people complicate things when they don't want a solution.
The solution would either bring about an outcome they are opposed to, or it would eliminate the excuse for their "job".
Either way, they are desperate to not find a solution, no matter how simple or obvious it might be to the rest of us.
So here we are. Thanks to people addicted to the political means; people who should never have any say in anything society does, or any power over the rights of others.
Monday, November 13, 2023
Is it constitutional?
To decide whether a gun “law” is or is not Constitutional is a very simple, two-step process.
- Is the “law”, rule, or policy made up by, or enforced in any way by, employees/cronies of government?
- If so, does the rule apply to weapons in any way?
If so, it is unconstitutional.
That’s it. There is nothing more to consider.
It doesn’t matter if the Supreme Court tries to complicate the matter or is scared to do the right thing. If they decide in any other way, using any other criteria, they are wrong. Since they probably know better, they are lying.
Why do they try so hard to confuse the issue? Because they are crooked.
This is why you never trust your rights to anyone affiliated with any government. Never!
But it doesn't matter to the big picture: No one has the right to disarm anyone who isn't a current credible threat or committing archation. Such a right doesn't exist and can't be created. The natural human right to own and to carry weapons isn't subject to the opinions and wishes of politicians, and can't be eliminated by ignoring or abolishing any part of any document.
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Liberty essential, worth fighting for
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Government shutdown imaginary threat
Justifying present wrongs with past wrongs
Everyone wants to justify the archation that they do (things they have no right to do) by pointing to what someone else did in the past.
That's such a bad idea.
You can only judge current rightness or wrongness by the present.
You can't demand reparations for historical wrongs. Those you'd steal the money from didn't commit the wrongs and you weren't the victim.
You can't justify a war by what "the other side" did in the past. (I don't think you can ever justify a war where you are doing more than killing individual invaders and the politicians who sent them, but that's a separate issue.)
I can't hunt down my second ex-wife because of the things she did to me at the end of our time together.
If you go back through the past to look for ways to justify your current actions, you'll always be able to find something. History is a neverending story of who did what to whom. How about you just do what you have a right to do now and leave the past in the past.
Friday, November 10, 2023
Garbage in, garbage out
When I was a kid, the most common excuse to explain why so many computer answers were useless was "Garbage in, garbage out". This referred to informational garbage (bad data) not useful organic garbage that can be used for good.
That doesn't only apply to old computers.
It's why AI may never be as useful as it could have been. Biased humans will train it with their political garbage (flawed date), so what do you expect to come out of it?
But the same is true of students who've gone through gov-schooling (including statist universities). Garbage is put into their heads, so garbage is what their words and actions are once they are out in the real world.
Then too many of these garbage-filled drones go into that other dispenser of garbage: government.
Political government has nothing but garbage going in-- beginning with the flawed ideas that create and justify it-- so garbage is the natural output. Garbage in, garbage out.
Thursday, November 09, 2023
Legalize everything
I've realized why I don't care as much as others seem to when things I think are wrong get "legalized".
Making something "illegal" only provides a path for government to punish those doing it. Making it "legal" again only removes (or alters) that power. It can't change something wrong into something right, nor something right into something wrong. It's all about the ability to use government to punish. I think punishment-- revenge-- is wrong. I know political government is illegitimate.
If you are doing something I believe is wrong, I will change my behavior toward you. I may shun you or tell others why I think you're a bad person. I may have to defend myself or others from you. What I'm not interested in doing is using government violence to punish you for what you do. If a bad guy is victimizing someone, no "law" is required to create-- and no "law" can take away-- the natural human right to defend self and others as you see fit.
Of course, this also explains my thoughts when something everyone has a right to do gets made "illegal". What bothers me about that isn't the "illegal" part, it's the punishments attached. You're still not doing wrong if you "break the law", even if government catches and punishes you.
The opinion of politicians is worthless because they don't understand right and wrong-- if they did they probably wouldn't be politicians. And they certainly wouldn't be making up legislation.
(Added: "Legalize", decriminalize-- what I want is everything removed from government's purview, however you want to say it.)
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
Liars hang together
All my adult life I've recognized the existence of "fake news" and misinformation. I saw it everywhere all the time when watching television or encountering "news". I've never once seen accurate reporting of a single "news" event of which I had first-hand knowledge. And all political "news" is a lie, and probably always has been, because politics is a lie.
Now, fake news and misinformation are being pushed as a major problem.
Look who is most concerned about the issue. In the past few years, all of a sudden, the issue became important to those who, to me, seemed the source of the fake news and misinformation most of my life.
Why?
Was it because fake news and misinformation magically appeared out of nowhere and threatened society? Nope. It was probably because their fake news and information was finally being exposed and called out. They didn't expect this to happen and they don't like it one little bit, and they've got to put a stop to it. Using the violence of government if possible.
Is everything counter to the "mainstream" narrative true? No. There's enough fake news and misinformation to go around. But for the hypocrites who've been pushing their lies unopposed for all my life to suddenly get up in arms because someone else is doing the same, or worse-- exposing the lies we've been fed for decades-- is kind of delicious.
Of course they're running to the biggest liar-- government-- to silence their competition. I wouldn't expect professional liars to do anything else.
Tuesday, November 07, 2023
Deranged evil losers are ready. Are you?
Thanks to Steven Crowder we finally got a look at the deranged Nashville evil loser's written rant. Some call it a "manifesto". Looks to me like the ravings of a mentally ill loser whose brain was hijacked by w0keness, but whatever.
In it, she wrote that she was ready-- to murder innocent people. And she hoped her "victums" weren't ready. They weren't.
Evil losers get to choose the time and place of the attack. They are not surprised when the shooting starts. But their victims are, since they were just going about their normal daily life, not planning to commit evil acts.
BE READY! Everywhere, all the time. Regardless of policies, rules, or counterfeit legislation. Yes, it can "happen here", wherever "here" is.
Be ready! "Ready" doesn't automatically imply that you have a firearm, but that is the general meaning. That's how you can be ready most effectively. But you can always be ready, somehow.
The evil losers are hoping you aren't ready for them. Disappoint them.
Monday, November 06, 2023
Rising from the ashes
Saturday-- two months and one day after it burned-- the local Walmart reopened. It's open in a limited capacity until March or so, but more is open than I expected. And faster. The grocery department is complete and full-size; every other department is smaller.
I foolishly went to check it out. Due to being blind on my left side for now, I did have one small mishap when I got caught on an empty hook and knocked it off. My greatest accomplishment is that I didn't crash into any people, though.
Perhaps the shopping public will be happier now. And the employees of the other stores, as well.
I had imagined that other local businesses would enjoy the boost in sales they'd get while their big competitor was closed. How silly of me.
Everyone complained about the larger crowds in the other stores. They couldn't wait for Walmart to reopen so all those "Walmart people" would be out of their hair. Not just the shoppers expressed this opinion, but the employees of the other stores did too. Yes, things were crowded and shelves were often empty, but that's what happens when the largest retailer in the area closes-- the people have to go somewhere.
Now that the store is back they'll probably go back to complaining that Walmart is taking their business. You can't make people happy.