- Sanders supporter literally cries over Trump supporters disagreeing with her. I wonder what she said on the phone or how she said it to tick them off; we're only hearing her version. It can give one a false sense of security, that our opponents are that fragile. They can still do a lot of harm when they're in power in the workplace, for example. Make an innocent political comment to a friend, one of these little brats hears it and cries to another brat manager or HR, and another brat is threatening your job. "You will comply" or at least be silenced. By the way, this girl has quite an accent, a big generational and class marker, not a regional one like a normal accent. I remember America before people were, like, talking like this? The fashionable English-based romance-novel name (give your girl a man's first name or that of a London neighborhood) is another marker. Many Sanders supporters' hearts are in the right place; I don't hate them. His candidacy like Trump's (my choice) is actually a good sign.
- Brown students complain homework is interfering with their
activismpartying, networking, and bragging/virtue-signaling. In a lot of cases, college isn't really for the education but a kind of sleepaway camp for the rich whose purpose is social; people of a certain class keeping their kids (daughters) away from riffraff. (Same as soccer's place in American culture as exercise and a social marker for the elite, not a competitive sport for the masses.) The smarter, socially gifted kids network. And Brown U. is an Ivy League college! Good goin', folks! Exactly. Seems to prove the point that it's more a place for a class to stay together or to aspire to the class than to get a real education. The lesser schools promise that to rip off the proles trying to move up. - "Survey says": American Catholics are socialized to say they agree with Pope Francis but many will vote for Trump. Understandably, the man in the pew has conflicting feelings. Pope Francis is appealing to altruism, seemingly Christian, while the man's instincts tell him to defend his family including the extended family who are his people, his tribe, his nation. The answers: charity is for citizens first and we are not obligated to commit suicide by letting in terrorists. Also, Pope Francis's opinions are not our doctrine. Trump '16: let's make America great again.
- The B-52. Roughly the same age as my car and STILL part of America's first line of defense.
- FBI wins lawsuit forcing Apple to install spyware on iPhone devices. I wonder if the hipster class who love Apple know they're the bad guys from 1984 (which I read in 1984).
- Hypervigilant college mistakes skin-care masks for blackface. Seriously, things such as blackface and minstrel shows went away pretty quickly after World War II, nothing to do with the Sixties' "consciousness" (preening). My theory is the Holocaust shocked many decent white Americans into stopping it where it persisted. Same reason many good-intentioned people who looked like me (as in "not the hippies") did the dog work for civil rights.
- Corn syrup by another name. How food packaging lies.
Don't apologize for things you didn't do, to people who don't believe in forgiveness or redemption.
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Those goofy kids and more
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The goofy kid has been listening too much to the Pope about walls.
ReplyDeleteHere is a possible syllogism:
Major Premises, Pope Francis:
"a person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian."
Minor Premises:
"Pope Leo IV created the Leonine Wall, completely surrounding the Vatican Hill."
Conclusion: Pope Leo IV was not a Christian.
Women and liberals should not be allowed to vote.
ReplyDeleteI watched just over a minute of that video. What a wreck! "Refer to other people as animals," and then comes the phony outrage and crocodile tears. These people are "fragile," as you say, but they are also stupid, cowardly, small-minded and vindictive. Not a good combination. And they share these traits with a whole generation of young people, my generation. They adhere to the conventions of this age with delusional conviction, and actually think that a dissenting opinion is backwards, of its nature ill-informed and bigoted. Upon these principles they can potentially ruin your life. Unlike you, Mr Beeler, I DO hate them for these very reasons. I discern in them something very crooked and dangerous, and the "fragility" is symptomatic of a cultural illness. We live in a society in which we go out of our way not to "offend" people. This proceeds from an almost solipsistic "I'm-all-right," worldview; there is no common faith, language, culture or customs; everything is equally valid, equal before the law, whether that’s an homosexual lifestyle or the practice of witchcraft. A small exception tends to be made for some sexual deviations but that's more to do with saying "I have at least some standards" than genuine moral outrage. This has nothing to do with Christianity.
ReplyDeleteThis girl, I don’t know who she is, is pathetic and needs to grow up.
I met a young man from America last year who reads my blog. He described my accent as "slightly posh," which is not exactly what I would have said. But I think what he was trying to say was that I don't speak like most people of my generation, which is true. I might make a video of these days.
Patrick, could not have said it better myself. Oh, please stick to John's site here, he is a gentleman who is not afraid of dissenting opinions. Stay away from Gabriel Sanchez's site, he has degenerated into some pretty nasty ad hominens against you, which even I find repugnant. I do not like people casting sexual perversion innuendo against others simply because they do not agree with their opinions.
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