Oh, OLDER sister, I kept thinking she’d be younger. If I remember right they
were to take off asap and head for home. Damn, that boy looks bad, I hope
with Teresa’s help he’ll fully recover. Next will be the trust issue, mostly for
the sister, while I’m sure she’s grateful for the rescue, she’s going to have
doubts at first, they always do…
We seen the tail beam in action, so I have little doubt! The Buns need to
learn duty, that even their own lives can come second to complete the mission.
I’m sure they understand it, but reinforcing it won’t hurt. They are still awe-
stuck with the wonders they are seeing, but it won’t last long.
When I saw panel 8 I got the odd impression I was looking at a gender-
swapped Chardis in a peek into a parallel universe. Who is the buff tiger-stripe?
He runs the weapons console, I found him on panels 7-8 http://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-801/
the hair is a bit longer then, but I’m sure it’s the same guy.
In More Soviet Science Fiction one story dealt with aliens observing
human society from a distance. The aliens observed that humans has
not been at war for a long time and that the millenias humans
had spent in space had been without weapons of any kind. The aliens
had concluded that Earth would be a pushover to conquer. They
expected the humans would have no concept of fighting or war and
would fall immediately to the alien’s conquest. The aliens thus began
their conquest by attacking the Earth ships i deep space and near
earth. The human ships had no weapons of any kind, and no
resistance.was expected.
The damage was considerable on one Earth ship and there was
consternation and confusion before a human realized it was an
unconceivable attack.
It was speculated that the alien ship must have had no idea what was
occurring when the first Earth pilot in desperation flipped his ship
and aimed the ships thruster at the alien vessel and sliced the alien
ship apart destroying it.
Soviet Science Fiction was another compilation containing some good
science fiction.
My. That rear beam was a weapon, though no human had considered using
a weapon in ages.
Niven also mentioned communication lasers being used by ‘unarmed’ craft.
Eventually according to him, the Kzinti figured out humans had decided to
wage war no more because we were so very, very good at it.
Yes. We decided to stop because we were so very, very good at it. I
recall that part now. Better peaceful uses than war. But if the
aliens wage war against the humans, the humans applied physics and
knowledge to turn that plow blade into an intergalactic weapon.
I enjoyed reading it way back when and I last saw that paperback
before family members purged a storage area that I maintained for
family possessions while I was away. Good science fiction is good
stuff.
I had planned on reading the 2 compilations again. We humans use what
we have as weapons when needed.
I was reading some earnest idiot’s opinion that having things that could kill
people around encouraged such thoughts, and I stopped and started counting
the things in the room that I could kill with. I stopped at 20 and hadn’t got
to the axes and swords on the walls yet, and the guns were in a different room.
Of course, I did have an open toolbox in front of me… Still not tempted to
harm anyone unless it’s to protect someone else. Go figure.
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
There’s a “pseudo-Latin” phrase for, “any chair in a bar fight”.
Also (not Latin), “bring any available weapon to bear”.
This is what makes me chuckle (and ignore) when I read signs at
theater doors & other businesses,
“no weapons allowed inside”. Yeeeeah. Riiiight.
To me, “The mind is the only true weapon. Everything else is just
a tool”. Do these places expect me to take out my brain & leave
it at home?
I’ve never read that book, but that pretty much describes what happened
when the very first fight when a human ship attacked Toby’s dagger, missiles
didn’t work so they used the ship’s engine to liquefy the crew of the human
ships. Granted the Terran ships were armed, but ineffective against the
Human shields. It was how the Terran’s got beam and shield tech too.
It’s Larry Niven’s “Known Space series. The very first human-Kzinti
encounter is one short story in a book of short stories.
The Kzinti ship had a mind reader. He reported accurately that the
humans had outlawed war and weapons.
There were sharp knives in the kitchen, but they didn’t even think of
these as weapons. And they had a very primitive space drive.
The most sensitive humans had recognized that a predator was reading
their minds, but the most powerful resistance they could find was to
think about chewing carrots. The Kzinti captain therefore decided
that he could kill the humans slowly and leave their ship undamaged
for study, by heating the human ship with a giant microwave beam.
Then the human ship began to slowly turn, putting it’s stern towards
the Kzinti ship. Did they think they could run away? But wait a
minute,
exactly what was that primitive drive? A reaction drive, using
photons as reaction mass – that is, a huge laser! Then it was too
late…
Instead of Kzinti examining a heat-killed human ship, humans examined
a sliced-up Kzinti ship. Word of this spread at light speed by radio.
But even the Kzinti’s much faster reactionless drive (stolen from
some genius race that “came in piece” to the Kzintis planet) was
sublight speed, so this was a very slow war – it was decades before
the Kzinti even realized that one scout ship wasn’t coming back –
and there was time to radio Earth, for Earth to radio the colony
planets, and for the colonies to reverse their anti-war brainwashing
programs and prepare to fight well-armed 500 pound bipedal cats.
When I heard about that, I wanted to go beat in some heads.
NO ONE can or should decide what gender a child has, they
aren’t old enough to make the decision as yet. And since it’s
non-reversible, that’s a parent “fixing” their gender for their
ideal child, not helping their child out. Another case of “Pay
attention to me!” nothing more.
Funny about the vegan cat. With the exception of house cats (felis domesticus)
felines are all obligate carnivores. They HAVE TO eat meat. Their guts are not
set up to digest plant material. House cats can get by consuming some
plant-based material but even then it has to pretty much all be protein. Years
ago I read about a couple in Kali (naturally) who took their kitten to the vet
because it wasn’t thriving. Turns out they were dedicated vegans and had
been feeding the poor critter a pure vegan diet. After the couple said they could not feed the kitten meat based cat food they agreed to leave the kitten
with the vet who found it a good home. How loony is that?! Would rather
starve their pet than feed it right. Note: per the vet we fed our calico
kitten formula for her 1st year.
I decline to comment on this for the reason that the person I am most familiar
with is not “out” to their entire family yet. But said person is now an adult and
was never pressured by anyone, to my knowledge, not parents, teachers,
friends or “authorities” to do anything permanent and irreversible to themself.
And that is how it should be. I agree children are too young and it’s NOBODY
else’s business. But I would -love- to see more research into what modern
medical procedures, especially hormonal therapies for OTHER things than
gender affirmation/modification, and current food production, which often
involves food animals and food-producing animals being fed excessive amounts
of hormones to increase production, are doing to us long-term.
Good! This has to stop, these people are so desperate to make
money they don’t care if they hurt someone, and the excuse of
“they wanted it” doesn’t fly because no child is ever sure of
themselves as to what they want and how/when/where of
anything, and teenage girls most of all. They are acting like
gender swapping is no different than owning 50 shoes that you
only wear once, ever. (Yes, wife was bad about that )
Yes. Gender-changing is not like changing shoes. It’s like having
your feet amputated so they can implant hooves.
You can’t change your mind later.
Even with adults, there’s a high rate of suicide among those that had
their gender changed with hormones and surgery.
It might fix a person’s problems, but often they didn’t understand
their problems, and there was no going back. Ethical doctors used
to require a trans candidate try living as the other gender before
beginning any permanent treatments for several years.
Children weren’t even considered for transition, because they’d be
adults before they had the life experience to be sure this
was what they wanted.
There are people who feel that some of their body parts – arms, feet – are
“wrong” and want them removed. Surgeons will refuse and send them for
treatment of their obvious mental illness. Even though that person
may be a legal adult.
Why are the standards different for children and their genitalia?
The western world is too obsessed with sex.
I have to say that is silly, but my experience is a bit different, my legs,
bowels, and bladder felt different (if at all), because of the nerve damage,
but I never once thought about having any of it removed. That is definitely
a mental disorder, like the “surgical addiction” that many artists in any
genre can become, Cher and Michael Jackson to name a couple. And the beauty
queens, and supermodels as they age.
Mutilating a child is a criminal act.
Sexually mutilating a child is a greater form of a criminal act.
Sterilizing children is another level of criminality.
The concept that the perversions and damage to these decision-making
adults allows these damaged people to even conceive that they are
correct in mutilating a well-functioning body in any way demonstrates
the extent of the perversity that has been created in the thoughts in
certain parts of world societies.
Allowing that there are a small percentage born that have genetic or
developmental differences, the application andforcing onto the
children of the adults almost religion of perversity does not solve
the children’s problems or situations.
All who mutilated children criminally must be dealt with in the
criminal courts, and civil courts concerning damages.
This mess is no different from when people decided that capital
punishment (spanking) in school was a bad thing, there was a
huge increase of child crime, most of all IN school where teachers
were the victims as much as anyone. It’s also why there was a
huge increase of false reports on parents for spanking, my eldest
tried that more than once! The last time he tried that got CPS
called in and we almost lost both boys because of that, it wasn’t
until they were going to take them away that he came clean.
This child gender thing is going to end much, much worse!!
A 12 year old
Can’t buy a gun
Can’t buy beer
Can’t drive a car
Can’t enlist in the armed forces
Can’t sign a binding contract
Can’t have consensual sex
Can’t get married
Can’t give informed consent for most surgical procedures
Can decide they were born in the wrong body
Can request life changing puberty blocking drugs
Can give informed consent to have their body PERMANENTLY altered surgically
What’s wrong with this picture?
Exactly, It’s all because one group decided that it was a good
thing and don’t want to hear about the obvious down-side of it.
I shudder at the thought of a fair number of these kids doing
permanent harm to themselves or the parents down the road.
Not to mention the thousands of hours in court! (civil and criminal)
One of the primary hallmarks of the liberal mind (IMHO) is the drive to control others . . . (Controlfreakitis?)
and to raise hell if anyone get in their way.
So easy to see how this has gone wrong in so many ways,
Re: Scarsdale – “…thousands of hours in court …” I can envision battalions of lawyers licking their chops –
Mostly due to what I consider to be the hallmark of the lawyer mind: Making money by control of others.
I have read that so many law schools are left of Left. OK, not surprised.
The most common dynamic in the lawyers’ minds – my 40%.
We need more precise political terms. “Classic Liberal” doesn’t fit
your description.
I would call the people you describe as “Leftists”.
Nowadays, the classic Liberal is pretty much a Conservative.
John F. Kennedy, for example, would be a Conservative today.
Me? I’m a small-“L” libertarian.
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
Teach me, oh Master!
I need to increase my vocabulary.
A soldier isn’t truly a soldier unless he can cuss someone out for 10 minutes in at least three different languages.
I come close, but being retired (and “domesticated”), I’ve lost a lot of that particular skill.
Long ago I read “liberal” and “conservative” defined in terms of their relationship
to CHANGE. Liberals were defined as being agreeable to or even desirous of change
– often purely for its own sake. Conservatives resist change absent a compelling reason
to do so. Extreme conservatives will resist all change even potentially beneficial change.
Today’s liberals (progressives) see any/all change as “progress” and thus desirable in
its own right. Thus the Obama era mantra of “hope and change” or the Clintons’ theme song
“Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow”. They view and despise conservatives not as being
anti change but, much more significantly, being anti PROGRESS! While I am a classical (Jeffersonian)
liberal, I am not in favor change willi-nilly. If a given change will bring about a genuine improvement, I’m all
for it. From where I sit progressives are hung up on novelty! Even when status quo is working “just
fine thank you” they will still seek the “new”, the “different” and that is what leads to trouble. They
automatically tear down every fence they come to without trying to figure out why it might have been put
there. Not every “obstacle” truly is.
I myself felt that “independent” was how I stood, change when needed
but try to stick to “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it” viewpoint. Change is good
where it’s needed, not for the sake of it!
Some change is good, for example I fought for 7 years to get my disability,
it wasn’t until I found a decent lawyer to take my case that I finally won.
The surprising thing was during that time the lawyer’s amount of award
had been changed from 10% to a solid amount, not more than $2,000 +
the court costs and fees. I had been expecting about $5,400, he only
asked $2,400!
“One of the primary hallmarks of the liberal mind (IMHO) is the drive to control others . . . (Controlfreakitis?)
and to raise hell if anyone get in their way.
So easy to see how this has gone wrong in so many ways, …”
Funny. I see this as the Hallmark of the the right/conservative/today’s Republican party.
Far leftists are also opportunists, they see or hear someone or a group say something
foolish or uneducated, they leap at the chance to use it to their advantage.
The race card is getting weaker all the time, so now it’s the gender “issue” and political
corrective-ness. All to distract the general population from the real issues. Both the
ancient Greeks and the Romans used that and the gladiators to do the same, it’s an old
trick but it still works.
Today they use sports teams and the social media instead of just killing their opponents
in an arena. I’m sorry if I’m crossing the line here, it’s just my opinion.
All parties want control. Religions and movements also. How they do it may differ, but they all
have their means of control. The greater good are governing words that usually don’t end with everyone’s
good, nor the greater good. Do no harm is not a goal achieved either. So hopefully we will become
the humans being peaceful for millennia. But we always have Kirk just below the surface,
so that they did not kill today is a good result, until it must not be.
YW. I talked with a number of Ukranian women and young women since that insanity began.
They have had generations where the young men were sent off to war for no good reason, or just killed.
The Russian civil war. Then the Voldemort starvation by Stalin. Then WW2. Then the unpleasantness of
the Communists. Gulags. The recent wars between Ukrainians and Russians manipulated by others is
now in a horrible phase. The women ranged from young to older. All of them brought up or agreed when
I discussed the loss of young men (and older) for them to marry and have families with.
Oh, OLDER sister, I kept thinking she’d be younger. If I remember right they
were to take off asap and head for home. Damn, that boy looks bad, I hope
with Teresa’s help he’ll fully recover. Next will be the trust issue, mostly for
the sister, while I’m sure she’s grateful for the rescue, she’s going to have
doubts at first, they always do…
We seen the tail beam in action, so I have little doubt! The Buns need to
learn duty, that even their own lives can come second to complete the mission.
I’m sure they understand it, but reinforcing it won’t hurt. They are still awe-
stuck with the wonders they are seeing, but it won’t last long.
I was thinking younger sister, too. Not sure why.
When I saw panel 8 I got the odd impression I was looking at a gender-
swapped Chardis in a peek into a parallel universe. Who is the buff tiger-stripe?
He runs the weapons console, I found him on panels 7-8
http://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-801/
the hair is a bit longer then, but I’m sure it’s the same guy.
His name is Vantas.
In More Soviet Science Fiction one story dealt with aliens observing
human society from a distance. The aliens observed that humans has
not been at war for a long time and that the millenias humans
had spent in space had been without weapons of any kind. The aliens
had concluded that Earth would be a pushover to conquer. They
expected the humans would have no concept of fighting or war and
would fall immediately to the alien’s conquest. The aliens thus began
their conquest by attacking the Earth ships i deep space and near
earth. The human ships had no weapons of any kind, and no
resistance.was expected.
The damage was considerable on one Earth ship and there was
consternation and confusion before a human realized it was an
unconceivable attack.
It was speculated that the alien ship must have had no idea what was
occurring when the first Earth pilot in desperation flipped his ship
and aimed the ships thruster at the alien vessel and sliced the alien
ship apart destroying it.
Soviet Science Fiction was another compilation containing some good
science fiction.
My. That rear beam was a weapon, though no human had considered using
a weapon in ages.
I remember that. It was Larry Niven’s Man-Kzin war series. I don’t
know which book, it’s been a long time since I read it.
Niven also mentioned communication lasers being used by ‘unarmed’ craft.
Eventually according to him, the Kzinti figured out humans had decided to
wage war no more because we were so very, very good at it.
Yes. We decided to stop because we were so very, very good at it. I
recall that part now. Better peaceful uses than war. But if the
aliens wage war against the humans, the humans applied physics and
knowledge to turn that plow blade into an intergalactic weapon.
I enjoyed reading it way back when and I last saw that paperback
before family members purged a storage area that I maintained for
family possessions while I was away. Good science fiction is good
stuff.
I had planned on reading the 2 compilations again. We humans use what
we have as weapons when needed.
I was reading some earnest idiot’s opinion that having things that could kill
people around encouraged such thoughts, and I stopped and started counting
the things in the room that I could kill with. I stopped at 20 and hadn’t got
to the axes and swords on the walls yet, and the guns were in a different room.
Of course, I did have an open toolbox in front of me… Still not tempted to
harm anyone unless it’s to protect someone else. Go figure.
There’s a “pseudo-Latin” phrase for, “any chair in a bar fight”.
Also (not Latin), “bring any available weapon to bear”.
This is what makes me chuckle (and ignore) when I read signs at
theater doors & other businesses,
“no weapons allowed inside”. Yeeeeah. Riiiight.
To me, “The mind is the only true weapon. Everything else is just
a tool”. Do these places expect me to take out my brain & leave
it at home?
Well, as regards a movie theater, yes, they often expect you to leave your brain at home.
I’ve never read that book, but that pretty much describes what happened
when the very first fight when a human ship attacked Toby’s dagger, missiles
didn’t work so they used the ship’s engine to liquefy the crew of the human
ships. Granted the Terran ships were armed, but ineffective against the
Human shields. It was how the Terran’s got beam and shield tech too.
It’s Larry Niven’s “Known Space series. The very first human-Kzinti
encounter is one short story in a book of short stories.
The Kzinti ship had a mind reader. He reported accurately that the
humans had outlawed war and weapons.
There were sharp knives in the kitchen, but they didn’t even think of
these as weapons. And they had a very primitive space drive.
The most sensitive humans had recognized that a predator was reading
their minds, but the most powerful resistance they could find was to
think about chewing carrots. The Kzinti captain therefore decided
that he could kill the humans slowly and leave their ship undamaged
for study, by heating the human ship with a giant microwave beam.
Then the human ship began to slowly turn, putting it’s stern towards
the Kzinti ship. Did they think they could run away? But wait a
minute,
exactly what was that primitive drive? A reaction drive, using
photons as reaction mass – that is, a huge laser! Then it was too
late…
Instead of Kzinti examining a heat-killed human ship, humans examined
a sliced-up Kzinti ship. Word of this spread at light speed by radio.
But even the Kzinti’s much faster reactionless drive (stolen from
some genius race that “came in piece” to the Kzintis planet) was
sublight speed, so this was a very slow war – it was decades before
the Kzinti even realized that one scout ship wasn’t coming back –
and there was time to radio Earth, for Earth to radio the colony
planets, and for the colonies to reverse their anti-war brainwashing
programs and prepare to fight well-armed 500 pound bipedal cats.
Some good news about protecting children:
https://headlineusa.com/hospitals-refuse-to-perform-gender-and-hormonal-mutilations-even-where-it-is-legal/
It was never about “Health care”, it was always about money.
When I heard about that, I wanted to go beat in some heads.
NO ONE can or should decide what gender a child has, they
aren’t old enough to make the decision as yet. And since it’s
non-reversible, that’s a parent “fixing” their gender for their
ideal child, not helping their child out. Another case of “Pay
attention to me!” nothing more.
As Blair White puts it:
“A parent with a transgender child is like a vegan with a vegan cat.
We all know who’s making that decision.”
Funny about the vegan cat. With the exception of house cats (felis domesticus)
felines are all obligate carnivores. They HAVE TO eat meat. Their guts are not
set up to digest plant material. House cats can get by consuming some
plant-based material but even then it has to pretty much all be protein. Years
ago I read about a couple in Kali (naturally) who took their kitten to the vet
because it wasn’t thriving. Turns out they were dedicated vegans and had
been feeding the poor critter a pure vegan diet. After the couple said they
could not feed the kitten meat based cat food they agreed to leave the kitten
with the vet who found it a good home. How loony is that?! Would rather
starve their pet than feed it right. Note: per the vet we fed our calico
kitten formula for her 1st year.
I decline to comment on this for the reason that the person I am most familiar
with is not “out” to their entire family yet. But said person is now an adult and
was never pressured by anyone, to my knowledge, not parents, teachers,
friends or “authorities” to do anything permanent and irreversible to themself.
And that is how it should be. I agree children are too young and it’s NOBODY
else’s business. But I would -love- to see more research into what modern
medical procedures, especially hormonal therapies for OTHER things than
gender affirmation/modification, and current food production, which often
involves food animals and food-producing animals being fed excessive amounts
of hormones to increase production, are doing to us long-term.
I predict many, many lawsuits as “transgender” children reach legal age.
(It’s alrady starting – Chloe Cole).
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/kaiser-permanente-sued-over-hormone-therapy/3164935/
Good! This has to stop, these people are so desperate to make
)
money they don’t care if they hurt someone, and the excuse of
“they wanted it” doesn’t fly because no child is ever sure of
themselves as to what they want and how/when/where of
anything, and teenage girls most of all. They are acting like
gender swapping is no different than owning 50 shoes that you
only wear once, ever. (Yes, wife was bad about that
Yes. Gender-changing is not like changing shoes. It’s like having
your feet amputated so they can implant hooves.
You can’t change your mind later.
Even with adults, there’s a high rate of suicide among those that had
their gender changed with hormones and surgery.
It might fix a person’s problems, but often they didn’t understand
their problems, and there was no going back. Ethical doctors used
to require a trans candidate try living as the other gender before
beginning any permanent treatments for several years.
Children weren’t even considered for transition, because they’d be
adults before they had the life experience to be sure this
was what they wanted.
There are people who feel that some of their body parts – arms, feet – are
“wrong” and want them removed. Surgeons will refuse and send them for
treatment of their obvious mental illness. Even though that person
may be a legal adult.
Why are the standards different for children and their genitalia?
The western world is too obsessed with sex.
I have to say that is silly, but my experience is a bit different, my legs,
bowels, and bladder felt different (if at all), because of the nerve damage,
but I never once thought about having any of it removed. That is definitely
a mental disorder, like the “surgical addiction” that many artists in any
genre can become, Cher and Michael Jackson to name a couple. And the beauty
queens, and supermodels as they age.
Mutilating a child is a criminal act.
Sexually mutilating a child is a greater form of a criminal act.
Sterilizing children is another level of criminality.
The concept that the perversions and damage to these decision-making
adults allows these damaged people to even conceive that they are
correct in mutilating a well-functioning body in any way demonstrates
the extent of the perversity that has been created in the thoughts in
certain parts of world societies.
Allowing that there are a small percentage born that have genetic or
developmental differences, the application andforcing onto the
children of the adults almost religion of perversity does not solve
the children’s problems or situations.
All who mutilated children criminally must be dealt with in the
criminal courts, and civil courts concerning damages.
This mess is no different from when people decided that capital
punishment (spanking) in school was a bad thing, there was a
huge increase of child crime, most of all IN school where teachers
were the victims as much as anyone. It’s also why there was a
huge increase of false reports on parents for spanking, my eldest
tried that more than once! The last time he tried that got CPS
called in and we almost lost both boys because of that, it wasn’t
until they were going to take them away that he came clean.
This child gender thing is going to end much, much worse!!
I think you meant “Corporal punishment”. Though in
some schools in some inner cities, maybe you did
mean capital punishment.
yeah corporal, I drew a blank and hopped for the best…
I know what you mean, seeing where I grew up huh.
A 12 year old
Can’t buy a gun
Can’t buy beer
Can’t drive a car
Can’t enlist in the armed forces
Can’t sign a binding contract
Can’t have consensual sex
Can’t get married
Can’t give informed consent for most surgical procedures
Can decide they were born in the wrong body
Can request life changing puberty blocking drugs
Can give informed consent to have their body PERMANENTLY altered surgically
What’s wrong with this picture?
Exactly, It’s all because one group decided that it was a good
thing and don’t want to hear about the obvious down-side of it.
I shudder at the thought of a fair number of these kids doing
permanent harm to themselves or the parents down the road.
Not to mention the thousands of hours in court! (civil and criminal)
A penny found is worth more than a penny earned –
Because a penny earned is taxed!
A penny saved is a penny earned as well, since they tax interest paid…
One of the primary hallmarks of the liberal mind (IMHO) is the drive to control others . . . (Controlfreakitis?)
and to raise hell if anyone get in their way.
So easy to see how this has gone wrong in so many ways,
Re: Scarsdale – “…thousands of hours in court …” I can envision battalions of lawyers licking their chops –
Mostly due to what I consider to be the hallmark of the lawyer mind: Making money by control of others.
I have read that so many law schools are left of Left. OK, not surprised.
The most common dynamic in the lawyers’ minds – my 40%.
We need more precise political terms. “Classic Liberal” doesn’t fit
your description.
I would call the people you describe as “Leftists”.
Nowadays, the classic Liberal is pretty much a Conservative.
John F. Kennedy, for example, would be a Conservative today.
Me? I’m a small-“L” libertarian.
Today’s “liberals” should more properly be called “LibTard/LibTurd DildoCrats” .
Your name for them is way to kind. It is accurate so far as it goes. It will suffice for now.
Teach me, oh Master!
I need to increase my vocabulary.
A soldier isn’t truly a soldier unless he can cuss someone out for 10 minutes in at least three different languages.
I come close, but being retired (and “domesticated”), I’ve lost a lot of that particular skill.
Long ago I read “liberal” and “conservative” defined in terms of their relationship
to CHANGE. Liberals were defined as being agreeable to or even desirous of change
– often purely for its own sake. Conservatives resist change absent a compelling reason
to do so. Extreme conservatives will resist all change even potentially beneficial change.
Today’s liberals (progressives) see any/all change as “progress” and thus desirable in
its own right. Thus the Obama era mantra of “hope and change” or the Clintons’ theme song
“Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow”. They view and despise conservatives not as being
anti change but, much more significantly, being anti PROGRESS! While I am a classical (Jeffersonian)
liberal, I am not in favor change willi-nilly. If a given change will bring about a genuine improvement, I’m all
for it. From where I sit progressives are hung up on novelty! Even when status quo is working “just
fine thank you” they will still seek the “new”, the “different” and that is what leads to trouble. They
automatically tear down every fence they come to without trying to figure out why it might have been put
there. Not every “obstacle” truly is.
I myself felt that “independent” was how I stood, change when needed
but try to stick to “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it” viewpoint. Change is good
where it’s needed, not for the sake of it!
Names are in flux. They don’t apply to most people as used.
Then Bagman Joe doesn’t want the lawyers 40%. He is such a sport. Ten percent for the big guy will do for him.
Some change is good, for example I fought for 7 years to get my disability,
it wasn’t until I found a decent lawyer to take my case that I finally won.
The surprising thing was during that time the lawyer’s amount of award
had been changed from 10% to a solid amount, not more than $2,000 +
the court costs and fees. I had been expecting about $5,400, he only
asked $2,400!
Just what we need, a whole new generation of wealthy young
lawyers with only greed in their minds…
“One of the primary hallmarks of the liberal mind (IMHO) is the drive to control others . . . (Controlfreakitis?)
and to raise hell if anyone get in their way.
So easy to see how this has gone wrong in so many ways, …”
Funny. I see this as the Hallmark of the the right/conservative/today’s Republican party.
You can both be correct in this. (I almost said ‘right’.
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Far leftists are also opportunists, they see or hear someone or a group say something
foolish or uneducated, they leap at the chance to use it to their advantage.
The race card is getting weaker all the time, so now it’s the gender “issue” and political
corrective-ness. All to distract the general population from the real issues. Both the
ancient Greeks and the Romans used that and the gladiators to do the same, it’s an old
trick but it still works.
Today they use sports teams and the social media instead of just killing their opponents
in an arena. I’m sorry if I’m crossing the line here, it’s just my opinion.
I heard the phrase “bread and circuses” a lot as a child. Never now.
Enough politics.
All parties want control. Religions and movements also. How they do it may differ, but they all
have their means of control. The greater good are governing words that usually don’t end with everyone’s
good, nor the greater good. Do no harm is not a goal achieved either. So hopefully we will become
the humans being peaceful for millennia. But we always have Kirk just below the surface,
so that they did not kill today is a good result, until it must not be.
Your comment reminded me of that reference, before you spelled it out. Thanks.
YW. I talked with a number of Ukranian women and young women since that insanity began.
They have had generations where the young men were sent off to war for no good reason, or just killed.
The Russian civil war. Then the Voldemort starvation by Stalin. Then WW2. Then the unpleasantness of
the Communists. Gulags. The recent wars between Ukrainians and Russians manipulated by others is
now in a horrible phase. The women ranged from young to older. All of them brought up or agreed when
I discussed the loss of young men (and older) for them to marry and have families with.