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About The Declination
Socialism is Elitism
by Thales | Oct 19, 2018 | Socialism | 8 comments
Let's begin with a quote from which the rest of this post will naturally follow:
Oddly enough, it is the intellectual snobbery and elitism of many of the literati that politically correct egalitarianism appeals to; their partiality to literary Marxism is based not on its economic theory but on its hostility to business and the middle class. The character of this anti-bourgeois sentiment therefore has more in common with its origin in aristocratic disdain for the lower orders than with egalitarianism.
– John M. Ellis
Most of my readers are likely personally familiar with this attitude. Debate a Leftist on social media and prepare yourself for a barrage of insults. You are ignorant, uneducated, immoral, hateful, and many other horrible, terrible things. The implication, of course, is that they are not these things. They are superior to you, better than you, more moral, more intelligent, etc…
Some time ago on Twitter, a self-declared Socialist explained to me that my car, a 2015 Mustang, was so plebeian. It was, he declared, entirely common. Anybody could afford the payments, he said (that I disdain auto loans and bought mine in cash never entered his mental calculations). I found this utterly fascinating, for Socialists usually claim to be acting for the common man. How could the word "common" thus be insulting?
Ocasio-Cortez became something of a meme after some enterprising reddit user humorously tabulated the cost of the various high fashion items she was wearing, while representing herself as a woman of the working class:
Because, as we know, the common man (or woman) wears a $3500 outfit. This tied in rather neatly with the Twitter Socialist decrying my automobile as too common. A proper Socialist would undoubtedly only drive a Ferrari or something. Ocasio-Cortez defended this by claiming the clothing was lent to her from the fashion industry. That doesn't make it any better. Rich champagne Socialists are jumping on her bandwagon and dressing her as one of them? More elitists to tell you that the common man sucks.
The essence of modern Socialism is thus a carefully calculated message: "I'm better than you, neener-neener." Everything they say is tainted with this. Pull up an article on any Left-leaning outlet and see it for yourself. Michael Crichton coined the term the Gell-Mann Effect to explain how people could be so blind to media stupidity. Perhaps we can coin a new term to refer to the Left's smug superiority complex.
We could call it the Ocasio-Cortez Effect.
Socialism appeals to the very poor and the very wealthy. The very poor, of course, are jumping on the train because elitist Socialists are promising them a mountain of free shit. We can understand, and to some extent even forgive, their support of the far Left. The wealthy Socialists have a different conception of things, something Thomas Sowell explained quite clearly:
The almost universal disdain toward the middle class — the bourgeoisie — by those with cosmic visions can be more readily understood in light of the role of such visions as personal gratification and personal license. The middle classes have been classically people of rules, traditions, and self-discipline, to a far greater extent than the underclass below them or the wealthy and aristocratic classes above them. While the underclass pay the price of not having the self-discipline of the bourgeoisie — in many ways, ranging from poverty to imprisonment — the truly wealthy and powerful can often disregard the rules, including laws, without paying the consequences. Those with cosmic visions that seek escape from social constraints regarded as arbitrary, rather than inherent, tend to romanticize the unruliness of the underclass and the sense of being above the rules found among the elite.
– Thomas Sowell
Only someone far removed from the reality of the world could truly believe something like Socialism could work on an intellectual level. Marxist thinking is a disease that is precisely tailored to infect the mind of the intellectual elitist – after all, Marx himself was one such. Rationalizing absurdity is the province of an arrogant mind disconnected from the consequences (as Taleb would say, someone without skin in the game), not necessarily a stupid one. It takes someone far removed from the consequences of his actions to believe objective reality could be made subservient to subjective whims.
Socialists are a collective mirror of Xerxes trying to whip the sea into obedience. That's the sort of thing only a smug, self-entitled, angry, and dare I say childish individual could possibly come up with. But stupid? No, not stupid. No doubt Xerxes had some twisted, self-satisfied rationalization for why the gods would obey him, should he do those things.
Or maybe he was just a petulant child. Sometimes it can be difficult to tell the difference between a smug elitist and a child throwing a temper tantrum. When you see Antifas lighting garbage cans on fire and breaking windows while screaming "FUCK TRUUUUUUMP", know that you're seeing a lesser version of Xerxes having the sea whipped.
Look at the Socialists out there today, with their Starbucks coffee, Apple iPhones, and mountains of debt. They say they are better than you. They say they are smarter, more moral, more fashionable, etc… They would never be caught dead with a common product, naturally. Nor would they be caught dead with the common working man. Coal miners? Fuck those guys! Plumbers? Electricians? Line workers? So plebeian!
I bet they drive Mustangs. And they probably don't even wear Gucci! So passe.
Is it any wonder working and middle class folks came out in support of Trump in such a big way? Decades worth of Leftists were shitting on the common working class man, and finally they had enough. Once the Left at least pretended to like these people, to fight for them. Now they only fight for foreigners. Send truckloads of illegals, refugees, and whoever else they can possibly ship over the border and give them as much free shit as possible. Provided, of course, that they vote for Socialists. Socialists with Prada bags, presumably.
That's always the bargain. If Mexicans voted like Cubans, Obama would have built walls that put Babylon and the Great Wall of China to shame. They'd have been thicker and taller than the Theodosian walls of Constantinople.
Do what your betters say. Obey. It's an affliction that even makes itself known on the nominal right. Tom Nichols is a big fan of obeying the experts because they are better than you. And by experts, he is really referring to technocrats. Most technocrats, of course, lean Socialist.
I will close with one quote the anointed experts, self-avowed champagne Socialists, and Ferrari drivers should take note of:
Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
The Founders knew perfectly well the dangers of Socialism… long before it was even called by that name. Government by anointed elitists who know better than you is as ancient as the historical record.
Probably more, actually.
Government Dependency Breeds Stupidity
by Thales | Jan 2, 2018 | Decline, Economics, Socialism, Statism | 35 comments
Many of my readers may be aware of the fact that, though I live in Florida, I'm pretty well-traveled. My father was in the military, and as a military brat I've lived in many different parts of the country, and been to almost all the lower 48 states at some point or another. We spent a couple years in Oregon when I was a teenager, and even back then the law prohibiting citizens from pumping their own gas was in effect. It was one of the stranger features of Oregon.
Now the partial repeal of this law, which only applies to rural areas, has some Oregon residents in a panic. Why, people may just have to get out and pump their own gas! The terror! The horror! I have to wonder if Democrats will get up on podium and tell us that people will die! This is another feature of that parallel (or is it orthagonal?) universe libs live in. Poe's law may apply to the comments below, but it's very hard to tell these days.
Either way, this is a very interesting case to dissect. Pumping gas is hardly rocket science, and yet somehow Oregon felt compelled to pass this law, and its partial repeal is engendering resistance. It boggles the mind. How can a people become so dependent as to be unable to pump gas? Never mind the fact that this merely allows for self-service gas stations, it doesn't mandate them.
Every place I've lived has had at least a few bizarre, retarded laws like this one, though. My own Florida has a strange law where liquor cannot be sold between 3AM and 7AM, which is extended in Tampa to 3AM to 11AM on Sundays. On top of that, there used to be a law whereby you could buy a 32Oz and 128oz beer growler, but not a 40oz or 64oz. I am told there is a small town in Texas which has, for reasons I cannot fathom, banned the presence of inflatable gorillas. The specificity of such laws is amusing. You have to imagine there is some kind of story full of human idiocy, corruption, and bureaucratic overreach as to how they came about in the first place.
But Oregon's law on pumping gas strikes me as one of the most egregious and bizarre of them all. That it has defenders is mystifying to me. I try to think of it in terms of Chesterton's Fence, but all the reasons I can think of for its existence are ludicrous. Was it another simple make-work scam by the government? Was it a demand for safety that went haywire (the other states get along just fine without such a law). It's hard to get a clear answer. Probably both, and then some. Either way, the people who erected this particular fence were out of their damned gourds.
It also demonstrates the difficulty of repealing idiotic laws once they've taken root. "It will take away jobs," is the reason the above article cites for where the resistance really comes from, but that is an idiotic assertion. It is the sort of answer that takes into account only first-order effects, avoiding consideration for the fact that these jobs are artificial in nature, sucking productivity from someplace else. It's a variation of the broken window fallacy. People have "jobs" but aren't really doing or contributing anything. And they suck down money that could be going somewhere else, someplace actually productive. But now there is a class of people who directly benefit from the law regardless of its lack of utility, and pulling them away from the benefit is like pulling teeth.
It has a similar effect on the citizenry at large. Unaccustomed to pumping gas, you have Oregonians who don't even know how to do it, and are literally afraid to do it. In some of my earlier writings, I made fun of a guy I saw on the side of the road getting his tire changed by a woman. He's nothing next to people who say they can't even pump their own gas. Government dependency is an ugly thing. If the trajectory toward increasing micromanagement of human affairs continues, I wonder if we'll see a day when wiping your ass requires a special, qualified ass-wiper to do the job. You know, so as to ensure there are no filthy butt cracks in the country, and to provide make-work jobs to some (probably not well-liked) demographic.
Either way, Leftists have lately told us that the recent tax cuts were going to kill people by the thousands, if not millions, and that the Net Neutrality repeal would bring about the digital apocalypse. I guess we'll see what 2018 brings. Maybe millions of Oregonians will die trying to pump their own gas, right? I mean, who knows?
Rationalizing Extinction
by Thales | Oct 23, 2017 | SJWs, Socialism | 27 comments
Here's a doozy of a post: Kids? Just Say No.
I've been seeing an awful lot of this kind of sophistry lately. It's moralism run amok. It differs from Social Justice only in degree. The SJW prioritizes certain classes and groups above others, based on an arbitrary Progressive Stack. This cretin suggests that life itself must be extinguished, in other words that nobody is salvageable. It won't be long before something akin to this becomes orthodox Social Justice belief.
Everything they do, from the casual treatment of abortion to the constant wearing down of men, to the incessant racial polarization, and finally to the worship of Death Cults like militant Islam and Communism… it all leads inexorably to this destination.
I lack the ability to prove it (I cannot get into their heads, and I don't think I'd want to even if it were possible), but I've long suspected that the underlying mechanism is disappointment in life. These people were promised utopias, heaven on Earth, a place without suffering, loss, and unfairness. If such a place exists, it is not here on Earth. Most of us eventually come to realize this, and make peace with it, and live our lives as best we can despite it. But these people never entirely let go of the expectation, and it festers into extreme disappointment and rage at the unfairness of it all.
And like all misery, it desires our company. Observe:
But even if life isn't pure suffering, coming into existence can still be sufficiently harmful to render procreation wrong. Life is simply much worse than most people think, and there are powerful drives to affirm life even when life is terrible. People might be living lives that were actually not worth starting without recognising that this is the case.
This is full of rhetorical nonsense like "life is simply much worse than people think." What people? Worse than what benchmark? To the contrary, human life has, in general, improved in very quantifiable ways over time. As I type this, I sit in a comfortably temperature-controlled building, with a full stomach, able to access pretty much any piece of human knowledge in seconds. Part of the desire to have children is the notion that they will have it better than us. That we leave to them a world better than we found it.
The central argument of this piece is that life is full of suffering (true), and that as a result, bringing new life into the world is fundamentally immoral. This is an argument for human extinction, something the author realizes:
The question is not whether humans will become extinct, but rather when they will. If the anti-natalist arguments are correct, it would be better, all things being equal, if this happened sooner rather than later for, the sooner it happens, the more suffering and misfortune will be avoided.
This contains many implicit assumptions: first of all that there is not a higher purpose for human beings. If one, for instance, were to believe in God, then it is possible this life is a test, and that another exists should we pass the test. Even if one is an atheist, it is possible to consider that human knowledge and evolution will eventually lead to immortality, or something like it; that even the supposed heat-death of the universe might be reversed (there is a great story by Isaac Asimov about this very thing). Regardless, the author is solipsistic in the extreme. He does not ponder a meaning or purpose outside the bounds of his own puny life. And since his life is imperfect, he presumes it a moral wrong that any other should "suffer" it. With a solipsistic worldview, it is easy to slip into madness like this, because other people don't even necessarily seem entirely real. It'd be like a Communist reading reports on the number of people who died at the gulag last week, they are just numbers, not even real people.
How many dead bodies have been stacked up in the quest for perfection? It is and always has been a fallacy.
The thing to understand above all this, however, is that morality is a tool. People like the author of this bullshit moralize until they are blue in the face. They dig too deep. They are too far away from the purpose of morality. If humans did not exist (for the sake of argument, I'm presuming there are no other sentient species), there would be no morality; no right or wrong. These are concepts that exist solely in the minds of individual humans. What good would the universe be, then? He argues not for the peak morality, but for the elimination of all morality.
This is the danger of applying concepts of morality at a meta level. It is what SJWs do, only to even greater degree. The SJW tries to balance out the conflicting moral stances of history; slavery to Jim Crow; Genocide to Imperialism; Conquest and Jihad; Poverty and wealth. This is beyond us. Playing with morality at a meta level leads to surprisingly irrational conclusions like kill all the humans, kill all men, or fuck white people. They differ only in degree of meta-moralizing.
Think about it. Someday SJWs are bound to realize that male feminists are just as "rapey", if not more so, than the shitlords. Sooner or later, they must learn that Islam is much harder on gays and transgender folks than Christians are. Or that groups of people far more racist than white Americans exist. SJWs will have to cannibalize themselves sooner or later. Black Lives Matter must inevitably conflict with White Girl Feminism. Chinese Communism must eventually conflict with Euro-Globalism. And so on…
Sooner or later SJWs will join our self-described "anti-natalist" in condemning the entire human species as worthless.
It all stems from a category error. Morality must first and foremost be applied to individual interactions. Bottom up, so to speak. Applying it from the top down leads to a self-destructive rationalization spiral ending with the position this man has espoused: the complete extinction of humanity. It's something adherents of death cults like militant Islam are perfectly aware of, too, given their quasi-apocalyptic rhetoric.
Poverty: Temporary or Permanent?
by Thales | Oct 2, 2017 | Economics, Socialism, Sociology, Weaponized Empathy, Welfare | 20 comments
Poverty is an issue Leftists badger the Right about incessantly. Poor people provide a convenient excuse for government control over your wallet. They need food, shelter, transportation, healthcare, and so on, and why shouldn't these things be guaranteed by a friendly government? Why rely on the charity of individuals to do this, when it is possible that private charity will miss some people, that some of the poor will slip through the cracks and suffer? Only government can make this a mandate. Let us raise taxes, they say, or reduce funding for the warmongering military, to help our poor people! As one Leftist detractor explained, let's do it for national pride, compassion, and empathy!
The buzzwords sound great, of course. But they are empty platitudes. You cannot eat compassion, nor will empathy put a roof over your head or supply you with good, inexpensive healthcare. And as we give government our money to do these things for us (or, rather, as it is taken from us), be advised that the bureaucrats and politicians will take their slice of the action. They are the middlemen, and naturally a middleman wants his share of the spoils.
Government inefficiencies aside, many of those who are supported by government anti-poverty programs are, essentially, lifers. They are mired in permanent poverty, never to escape. What percentage, exactly? Well, it's difficult to tell. But those receiving government benefits in the 37-48 month category (the longest period I could find concrete stats for) stands at around 43% of those on government assistance.
In browsing around these statistics this morning, I came across a Huffington Post article that was using essentially the same data (they differed by a couple percentage points here and there, but were clearly using a similar source). Their conclusion was that a majority of people used welfare benefits of varying types for only short periods of time. This was technically true (after all, 43% is a minority). But nonetheless, we are not far from that magic 50% marker.
In any event, for our purposes 43% of welfare recipients will do. These are people who are essentially in a state of permanent poverty. There are probably some who are too proud to take government benefits for long, too, or who do not qualify for one reason or another. So the actual number of those in permanent poverty is probably somewhat higher than that number would indicate.
Thing is most of us, myself included, have probably experienced some form of temporary poverty. For me, this came during the dot-com bust in 2001, when getting work as a web developer was essentially impossible. This happened to a lot of my friends in the industry, too. Those were tough times for folks in my line of work. I took a job as a Costco stocker for a time. Some friends took various odd jobs, or moved back in with family.
When talking to friends, family, and some of my readers here at The Declination, I can safely say that most of us have experienced temporary poverty. When I was born, my father was broke and just barely struggling to keep the lights on and food on the table. But that, too, was temporary. My wife's family came from Cuba with nothing but the clothes on their backs, all that Castro permitted them to take with them. But their poverty was temporary, also. My wife's grandfather quickly landed a job (all physical labor, but that was enough) and he managed to claw his way out of poverty. Her father managed to prosper, working his way up from a minimum wage pharmacy worker job to part-owner in a lucrative pharmacy business.
What is the difference between those who fall into poverty, for whatever reason, and those who stay there?
There is a mindset I've seen with people who are stuck in permanent poverty. A family friend, who for sake of anonymity I will call Harry, exemplifies the permanent poverty situation quite well. Harry was a general contractor, and had a set of skills that ought to have made him permanently well off. But when he'd land a good contract, and score some hefty profit, he would quickly burn through money. Harry's house would be filled with toys, from a new lifted F-150, to boats, RVs, motorcycles, whatever. And then, a year or two later, after going through several lean months, the possessions would disappear one at a time, sold or repossessed by the bank.
Feeling sorry for Harry, my father helped him score a job worth a substantial amount of money. Half was to be paid upfront, the remainder upon completion of the job. But Harry spent the advance too quickly, burning through it at the bars and the strip clubs, and found he did not have enough money leftover to buy all the supplies needed to finish the work. The broken contract cost him his contractor's license, and he found himself out of work. Things continued to go downhill after that, and he spent several months in jail on some unrelated charge.
Harry has since been released, and is back working in construction, but now as a regular laborer. His lucrative career as a general contractor is gone forever. And even still, after all this, he quickly spends his money on booze, women, and toys, and finds himself in financial pickles. So far as I know, Harry has never taken a dime of welfare money, but he is still stuck in permanent poverty. And all the help my father and I could give him was for naught.
The thing is, you could give Harry a million dollars, and it would soon vanish. Just as you could give some folks on welfare piles of money, and in the long run it would do them no good. The money would not improve their lot, but if taken out of your paycheck, it could worsen your lot. That isn't to say money can't help a poor man at all. Those who are in temporary poverty may very well be helped by a timely infusion of cash, or some food, shelter, or otherwise.
Differentiating between the temporarily impoverished and the permanently impoverished is a mission we've largely outsourced to the government, and I consider that a mistake. The government is ill-equipped to do this. Some of the temporarily impoverished may be turned away, and many of the permanently impoverished may supplied with money and/or benefits that are, essentially, wasted. Take this story, confirmed by Snopes, of a man using his girlfriend's EBT card to buy steak and lobster. He then resold the food for cash, 50% of the value of the original food. He was caught and arrested for fraud; for reselling the food and using someone else's benefits. But this sort of thing goes on all the time. And sometimes the EBT benefits are sold more directly. And let us not forget the FEMA cards after Katrina, often being used for strip clubs and booze, not unlike what Harry did with his profits. Some got caught. I suspect many more got away with it.
The point is, some of these folks have a mindset that mires them in permanent poverty. Even given the food, they will sell the food at a discount and use it for something else. Given the welfare cash to pay bills, they will spend the money on something else. Give them millions, and they will soon be broke again. Such aid only truly improves the lot of the temporarily impoverished. And even then, I've never taken such benefits, even when temporarily impoverished, and neither have most folks I know. Most of the time, we can get out of temporary poverty with some bootstrapping and some assistance from family and friends.
How do you change the mindset of the permanently impoverished? I don't know. What I do know is that if the purpose of government welfare spending is to lift them out of this state, it's not going to work. It may help the temporarily impoverished, though I'd argue we could do that more efficiently via private means. But the permanently poor are going to stay that way, short of changing their mindset. I've spoken at length on the possibility that pain is a good teacher; that maybe making people too comfortable in poverty (the regularity and guarantee of government assistance) may work against learning the habits and mindset necessary to escape poverty. But Harry's example is also instructive, he's had every incentive in the world to change his behavior, and he never did. Some people may be beyond our help. It's an unpleasant thing to contemplate, but it may nonetheless be true.
The question is, if some people are beyond our help, if lifting them out of poverty is beyond our means, what is our responsibility to them? Do we owe the government an ever-increasing slice of our earnings to fail to help them? Where does our obligation end? To those in power, of course, middlemen taking their slice of the action, the answer is that the obligation never ends, and is an essentially unlimited mandate.
Using Morality as Cover for Tyranny
by Thales | Sep 28, 2017 | SJWs, Socialism, Weaponized Empathy | 29 comments
Our resident Lefty troll has spent the better part of the last few days lecturing my readers on their moral inferiority. He offers no solutions, no costs, no benefits, and is quite vague on matters of policy. Rather, he hopes to play the Alinsky handbook out and see where it takes him. But in the process, he has exposed a facet of Weaponized Empathy that bears elaboration.
A few months ago, a friend of mine suffered some serious legal trouble. He was innocent of the charges levied against him, and his lawyer was confident of victory in court. Indeed, the charges were immediately lowered, and just last night I heard that his lawyer had secured evidence that ought to clear him. But, as is often the case, the punishment is the process. My friend's legal fees were mounting. He does pretty well for himself, but while the court case was pending, his employer placed him on leave. So he was eating into savings very quickly. Things were looking grim.
A few of us got together and did some crowdfunding for him on social media. We secured enough money to pay his legal fees through small, private donations. It was enough to allow his savings to cover his day-to-day costs, and keep him afloat in what would otherwise be a very trying time. And we did so with small donations. $25 here, $50 there. It all adds up. So at no great cost to ourselves, we willingly helped him, and it worked.
Legal fees being about as ridiculous of an albatross as healthcare, one wonders why this approach isn't championed by the morally-enlightened paragons of the political Left. With the rise of the Internet, and the power of mass media, it seems there is a great missed opportunity. When a leftist browbeats you with some sob story, and uses it as evidence as to why we need some government program, why we need higher taxes, ask him about this.
Take a look at this story: A disabled Dallas woman faces eviction after getting slammed with late fees higher than her rent.
The tone of the article would have you believe that the landlord is a heartless, cruel company (or person). Why, for a mere $173, they charged this woman late fees, and now she can't catch up! More subtly, the article is asking the question of why this woman should even have to pay rent at all. Clearly, the government should pay all of her housing expenses (it only pays most of them now). There is even a picture of the woman in her wheelchair next to her son, trying to waive down a bus to take them to the courthouse. Think about that, a reporter who knows this woman's story is right there taking the picture, seeing this woman suffer, and can't even be bothered to give her a ride. But the staff photographer has plenty of time for some quick Weaponized Empathy photo ops.
Yet if $173 is a mere trivial nothing, and the late fees so unimportant that the landlord should be expected to waive them away because of media outrage, where is the gofundme for this woman? And why have the journalists who exposed this terrible case not donated a few dollars themselves? You could circulate that crowdfunding link around the office of The Dallas Morning News and pay this woman's bills for an entire year with what these people spend individually on a cup of overpriced Starbucks coffee every morning.
Some time ago, I read an article (which I can't find at the moment – if my readers know, please reply in the comments) where some old woman wound up dying because she could not afford her electric bill. The electricity wound up getting shut off, and she froze to death in the winter. Naturally, everyone was angry at the utility company for shutting off her power. Why, the whole community was outraged at the greed of such a terrible company.
Yet where were these outraged people when she was still alive? Could they not cobble together a few dollars each to pay her bill, to see her through the rough times? No, chances are they didn't even notice she existed. And if they did, they paid her no mind. She wasn't their problem. She was somebody else's problem. And when she died, they were shamed, because they let it happen. The utility company, who likely had no idea what was going on (only that they weren't being paid), became the scapegoat for their shame, for their lack of caring for their fellow man.
The solution for such people is to outsource the responsibility of caring to someone else, namely the government. Out of sight, out of mind. They never have to mix it up with folks living at the edge. They don't even have to bother with the time it takes to go to a gofundme link and donate a few dollars. Let the government handle it all, they say. And they account themselves our moral superiors because of this.
To them, charity is some distant, impersonal thing. Some money is taken out of their paycheck every month. Where it goes, nobody knows. But the leftist has done his duty, you see. He doesn't have to think about his fellow man anymore. Indeed, he could write a story about a poor woman in his own community who needs a mere $173, and use his podium to lecture the public that someone else ought to cough up that money.
When government charity fails, when it breaks the human spirit, when it destroys entire communities, leftists can always point to the mean old Republicans and blame us for the suffering. All because they can't cope with the shame that, when you get right down to it, they did nothing. All they did was watch the IRS come and take some portion of their paycheck. They did the easiest thing in the world: they threw some money at a problem and hoped that it would go away and trouble them no more.
by Thales | Sep 25, 2017 | Culture War, Marxism, Racism, Sexism, SJWs, Slavery, Socialism, Sociology | 194 comments
Usually, when you encounter an item with no definitive price tag, it is because the item is significantly overpriced. When a customer must ask for the price, the salesman can estimate wealth, gullibility, and many other things before finding a way to screw the customer. It also provides an opportunity to sell the customer, rather than merely counting on the item and its price to convince the buyer.
In simple terms, forcing another to be open about his wants, and being closed off on your own, gives a man a decided bargaining advantage.
Lately, we've seen this at work with Antifa, BLM, #TheResistance, and other assorted left-wing groups. Grievances are produced, from slavery, to the plight of Native Americans, to American foreign adventures in the Middle East. Being honest with ourselves, some of these grievances have at least a historical merit to them. But for such leftist groups, the price for burying the grievance is obfuscated behind buzzwords and jargon. We must dismantle the cisheteropatriarchy, we must check our privilege, we must become a positive advocate for change. Everything from microaggressions to cultural appropriation are cited as examples of these things.
But I ask, what change?
Allow me to step into the shoes of one of Babylon 5's villains, Mr. Morden, and ask the question: "what do you want?"
Well, leftists? What do you want? What is your price for putting away identity politics and your incessant portrayals of right-wing racism, sexism, homophobia, and islamophobia? These portrayals have silenced some of us, enraged others, and sent many conservatives running for the political closet. And once there, they still voted right-wing. Thus we now have one Donald J. Trump, despite all predictions to the contrary.
Some of us, like the esteemed Francis at Liberty's Torch, have made peace with the incessant accusations and said something to the effect of "if you think that means I'm a racist then fine, I'm a racist. Now what?" Others, like myself, maintain that the portrayal of racism as the greatest of all evils is a mistake, dredged up because of the relative historical freshness of Nazi evil, and America's own struggles with slavery. These evils most Americans are familiar with, but judging from the proliferation of Che Guevara t-shirts, the evils of Communism are less well understood.
And so racism becomes the number one evil in America, a sort of 21st century red scare, except there are even fewer to play the part of the reds (and many more actual reds).
All of that is immaterial, however. What is the end goal of the leftist? What does he want? What does his ideal America (or world, for those of a globalist persuasion) look like? Who gets to live there? What becomes of us and others who do not fit this progressive vision of the future?
When asked, leftists are often quite silent on the price. Just today, one explained that I should google the matter (never mind that I've exhausted google as a resource for this) because she didn't want to "perform free emotional labor" on my behalf. Naming the price is now something that, in itself, costs money. Imagine if you asked the salesman what the price of a thing was, and he replied "you have to pay me to find out."
Like the little psychological trick of decreasing sticker shock with slick salesmanship, the left understands that by hiding the price, they increase the possibility of ripping off some gullible idiot. Namely, us. And it works well enough on some. Enough that the thought of being accused of racism or prejudice is enough to elicit outright fear in many, not just an answer to the question.
Once an accusation of racism is leveled, very little is sufficient to dismiss it. Do you have many friends of the race in question? RationalWiki tells you that this is insufficient (after all, Hitler liked one Jew). You're still a racist. What if, instead, you married a black woman, loved her and her family, and had a child with her? Well, you're still a racist, because as some Puppy-kickers explained on Facebook (they have since deleted the posts in question, but I saved a screenshot, and Brad Torgersen can confirm it), black pussy doesn't mean you aren't racist. The Puppy-kickers even made this into a t-shirt. This argument was recently resurrected on Twitter by Talib Kweli Greene where he explained that if you marry an Indian woman, you're still a racist, you just like Indian pussy.
So your friends, family, and relationships are dismissed. The accusation still stands. And remember, you are guilty unless proven innocent. And to prove your innocence, you must embrace leftist politics. That is the only accepted coin. And even by doing that, you would still have to abase yourself thoroughly and completely. Meanwhile, a woman who murdered her own 4 year old son applied to Harvard, and was denied. Naturally, this had something to do with racism, according to Vox.com. Of course it has little or nothing to do with being a convicted murderer of a child.
Ultimately, the choice is this: convert to leftism, or risk being tarred as a racist with no possible way to prove otherwise, because you are guilty until proven innocent, and all evidence except leftist political sentiments will be summarily dismissed as insufficient.
Meanwhile, a reasonable man might be inclined to ask the price of buying this weapon off the left. What would it take for them to put it away?
Their rants and raves on this matter are difficult to parse. Ta-Nehisi Coates penned a long piece in support of reparations, and when I first read it I expected a concrete answer to the question "what do you want?" Instead, we were treated to a historical lecture on the plight of blacks in America. We already knew this. Everybody knows about slavery, Jim Crow, and discrimination against blacks. How can anyone not know? The media has been bombarding us with these things for as long as I've been alive. And if the media wasn't, BLM sure has been making a rather more raw effort at doing so. We get it. These things happened, and blacks got a raw deal.
What I want is a price. What are the demands? What do they really want?
I suspect the reason the demands aren't named is that the sticker shock is likely to be quite mighty. I recall reading some time ago (and I can't remember where presently, but if any of my readers know, please reply in the comments) that one black leader suggested a one-time payoff of $1 million to each black citizen. That bill would come out to approximately $36 trillion, approximately double the GDP of the United States, and likely an impossible sum. But to be honest, I suspect the left's real demands would be much more expensive, and involve something much more Marxist than a massive one-time payment. The left would probably want to ensure the racist right-wingers never got to express their racism again, and would need to be actively suppressed. Somebody has to be the kulaks when things go bad, after all.
In the end, it's just like Barack Obama's campaign of hope and change. What change? How much will it cost? Hopeful for whom? These are questions the left leaves unanswered. There are never any (accurate) price tags on their merchandise. And so, I've no interest in buying.
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511 The Search for Great Qin
 Luckily, the Ying family had not accepted many women, only the four from earlier. Otherwise, many large families would have come to demand their people back. It was impossible that everyone would put their faith in Great Qin and stand against the other factions.
The Ying family paid a great deal of attention to this matter, and the family leaders came to Zhao Fu's villa. However, after hearing that he was still in the Heaven Awaken World, they did not disturb him because they knew that things would be quite chaotic for him in the Heaven Awaken World.
As such, they told the bodyguard to alert them immediately when Zhao Fu woke up.
After hearing about this news, the four women did not react too greatly. Before, Liu Ruyan and Pan Yuling held onto a trace of hope that their families would take them back, but after hearing from their families, they could only give up completely.
From that moment onwards, they resigned themselves to the fact that they belonged to Great Qin and Great Qin's Legatee.
Feng Shiyu paid a great deal of attention about Great Qin's Legatee, and after hearing the news, she ran to Zhao Fu's villa, wanting to hear about Great Qin's Legatee's condition. After all, she already thought of herself as Great Qin'a Legatee's woman, but she was stopped by the bodyguard.
On the other hand, Li Muqing showed the least reaction. She continued to do what she normally did, which was reading books and occasionally painting. She occasionally talked with Liu Ruyan about music and acted as if she hadn't heard about the matter.
Back at the Forest of Horrors, all of the shops related to Great Qin were closed. Since they had chosen to fight, the system main cities would not hold back.
Luckily, Great Qin had already recalled all of its people, so there were not any injuries or casualties.
However, Heaven's Choice was not so lucky. Its headquarters was surrounded by countless players, and most people chose to leave the faction. Only a small portion of people chose to remain loyal and resist, and they were all killed.
It could be said that all of Great Qin's factions in the Forest of Horrors had been destroyed, and nothing affiliated with it had survived.
However, even though Heaven's Choice had been destroyed, its core members had already been sent to the Ying family's residence. Nevertheless, Heaven's Choice would cease to exist from now on.
This was because after dying, people would be randomly sent to another location, so it was almost impossible for the core members to be sent to the same place, making it impossible to re-establish the same Heaven's Choice. Only after the regions were all opened up would Zhao Fu be able to re-establish the same Heaven's Choice.
Apart from destroying Great Qin's factions, the three system main cities also gave out quests to start conducting a blanket search to seek out where Great Qin was.
Through the abnormal signs caused by Great Qin, the three system main cities could guess roughly which direction it was in, so they hoped to find it through a large-scale blanket search.
Now, all of the players were willing to do their bidding, so this was a good opportunity to find Great Qin. If they could really find it, they would be able to quickly get rid of this menace. Only after they destroyed Great Qin would they be able to feel safe.
In actuality, the players were not doing their bidding but the Dynasty Legatees'. They had just received massive rewards from the various Dynasty Legatees, so they were incredibly happy and were naturally willing to obey them. Just as the three system main cities wanted to destroy Great Qin, the Dynasty Legatees did too.
The reward for finding Great Qin was incredibly alluring: the three system main cities offered a reward of 300,000 gold coins while the Dynasty Legatees offered a total of $1 billion in the real world and would allow them to become a core member of one of their factions and receive protection.
Those rewards were incredibly tempting, and many people went out to madly search for Great Qin.
"Damnit!" Zhao Fu gnashed his teeth in fury as he slammed his fist onto a table. Everyone in the hall lowered their heads, not daring to make a sound, and the atmosphere within the hall was quite oppressive.
After Great Qin retreated, Zhao Fu gathered all of his Generals. After receiving various pieces of news, he felt incredibly furious.
Every time, it was ordinary people who had been a grave threat to Great Qin. Zhao Fu had never wanted to kill ordinary people, only those who opposed him. However, now, he wanted to kill all of the ordinary people as well.
He could not allow them to threaten Great Qin time and time again. Zhao Fu's eyes gave off a cold glow, thinking whether he should cause another catastrophe.
However, that was not quite possible - he had promised the Sky Desolation Azure Dragon that he wouldn't do anything that would destroy the Heaven Awaken World, and even if he broke that promise, the Sky Desolation Azure Dragon would definitely step in again. Right now, Great Qin was unable to resist it.
Apart from the Sky Desolation Azure Dragon, there were also three other Guardian Beasts that would definitely step in. Just the Sky Desolation Azure Dragon alone was incredibly powerful, let alone the others.
Zhao Fu felt that Great Qin was simply too weak right now, and it was as if it could be easily destroyed by anyone without much resistance. Zhao Fu hated this feeling - only by throwing away everything else would they be able to continuously grow more and more powerful.
At that moment, Zhao Fu's handsome face became quite savage, and his eyes became even redder, making him look quite berserk. Everyone who saw him trembled.
Within the boundless darkness, the gigantic devilish star suddenly gave off an incredibly intense blood-red light, and an energy filled with an aura of destruction gradually formed. The Chaotic Imperial Star seemed as if it was no longer bound by the laws of the universe.
What was even more shocking was that a large amount of a black aura started to rise up from Zhao Fu's body - this was his King's Power and his King's Fate, and at this moment, it started to turn blood-red.
Within Zhao Fu's soul, that demon god attribute slowly unleashed its power, causing Zhao Fu's soul to change.
A chilling feeling spread out, making everyone feel as if they had fallen into a bottomless abyss, and their expressions became ones of shock as they looked at Zhao Fu.
Immediately, they found that Zhao Fu's appearance started to become inhuman - two fangs started growing out of his mouth, and his ears became sharper. His black hair slowly became blood-red, and his noble and domineering aura became one of bloodlust and slaughter.
Standing beside Zhao Fu, Xianru looked quite serious and walked over, stretching out her hand. A five-colored light shined on her palm as she lightly patted Zhao Fu's back, saying, "Your Majesty, you're the ruler of Great Qin; you can't allow yourself to be affected by other powers."
Immediately, Zhao Fu felt as if he had been woken up from a dream. He looked up and hazily looked around him, returning to his former self.
This allowed everyone in the hall to release a sigh of relief. They looked at Xianru with gratitude - if it wasn't for her, none of them would have been able to stop Zhao Fu.
No matter what Zhao Fu became like, they would still follow his orders absolutely.
Xianru knowingly smiled and slightly lowered her head, acknowledging the Generals' looks as she returned to Zhao Fu's side.
"Your Majesty, what should Great Qin do about the blanket search being conducted?" Bai Qi said, drawing Zhao Fu's mind to something else.

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The DCSO received a report of a larceny that occurred at Joe's Tractor Sales on Aug. 17. Deputies with the Breaking and Entering Task Force began investigating the case.
The owner of Joe's Tractor Sales, Joseph Moore, told deputies the suspect entered the store and stole three chain saws valued at $2,366.85. Moore then followed the suspects out of the store and attempted to stop then as they got into their vehicle, according to a DCSO news release.
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Probes are very useful in orbiting or landing on planets and their moons. They have flown to most planets and some are on their way out of the Solar System and into interstellar space. They radio back to Earth informative data and excellent pictures.
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The mission of the Viking probes were to study Mars and search for signs of life. In 1976 probes entered the thin Martian atmosphere, soft landed and began to send back photographs and weather information for several years. The soil samples on Mars failed to indicate any signs of life.
The two Voyager space probes launched in 1977 were missioned to study distant planets. The results sent back included great photographs of planets and their moons. The planets visited were Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981, Uranus in 1986, and Neptune in 1989. The Voyager spacecraft used the gravity of one planet which would fling the spacecraft in the fashion of a slingshot toward another planet.
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The life cycle of a star begins as a spinning cloud of gas and dust called a nebula. Gravity then pulls billions of particles to gather into a huge ball. The inward pressure heats up these particles until the central region gets hot enough to start a nuclear reaction that transforms hydrogen into helium and a star is born.
The Harvard classification system divides stars into ten main types, O, B,A, F, G, K, M, R, N, and S. Each type is further divided into subdivisions. O, R, N, and S are considered comparatively rare. Most stars are included in the B to M sequence.
In 1908 E. J. Hertzsprung drew up a diagram where he plotted the luminosity of stars against their spectral types while simultaneously Russell in the United States was conducting similar research. The outcome is both men were credited and the research is known as the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram or H-R diagrams. On this diagram most stars lie on the Main Sequence. At the left top the very luminous white stars are shown while to the bottom right the feeble red stars are shown.
In the universe the most abundant element is hydrogen, Normal stars contain primarily hydrogen. Inside a star is a tremendous amount of pressure with extremely high temperatures. The hydrogen nuclei combine to form nuclei of helium which yields energy. It is energy that keeps stars radiating.
Modern theory suggests that a star begins inside a nebula and contracts. The star will eventually join the main sequence at a point determined by its initial mass. If a star has a large mass, it joins the stars near the top left on the main sequence. Most of a stars brilliant career remains on the main sequence. When the hydrogen runs out, the core undergoes further contraction while the outside expands. This produces helium and the star becomes a giant. Eventually stars end up as white dwarfs, neutron stars or a black holes. Stars are said to be like people, they are born, they mature, they grow old, and they die.
One day our star will swell into a red giant, swallow up Mercury, and kill all life on Earth. The Sun will eventually shrink into a dim white dwarf about the size of Earth. It will cool down in time, and turn into a dense burned out amber.


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'Drone' hits BA plane: Police investigate Heathrow incident
April 18th, 2016 by Mark Daly in Industry News No Comments »
A police investigation is under way after a passenger plane approaching Heathrow Airport was hit by what is believed to have been a drone.
The British Airways flight from Geneva, with 132 passengers and five crew on board, was hit as it approached the London airport at 12:50 BST on Sunday.
If confirmed, it is believed to be the first incident of its kind in the UK.
BA said it would give the police "every assistance with their investigation". No arrests have been made, police say.
The Metropolitan Police's aviation security unit based at Heathrow will lead the investigation.
After safely landing the plane, the pilot reported an object – believed to have been a drone – had struck the front of the Airbus A320.
A BA spokesman said: "Our aircraft landed safely, was fully examined by our engineers and it was cleared to operate its next flight."
A Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) spokesman said it was "totally unacceptable" to fly drones – which are generally used to capture aerial film or photographs – close to airports.
Steve Landells, from the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa), said it had been "only a matter of time before we had a drone strike". He called for greater enforcement of existing rules.
Are drones dangerous or harmless fun?
Drones pose 'real threat' to civil aviation
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Flying a drone near an airport can already be punished with up to five years in prison, and rules also forbid flying them "beyond the direct unaided line of sight" of the operator or near buildings and crowds of people. Drones over 7kg can not fly above 400ft (122m).
But the latest incident will only add to the pressure for further steps to be taken.
The US recently introduced a compulsory registration scheme so any drone recovered from an accident can be traced back to its owner.
In addition, officials could make it mandatory for drones to run geo-fencing software – that would prevent them flying in restricted areas.
The Department for Transport has promised to publish a strategy for unmanned aircraft this year.
Pilots have also called for it to fund tests into what would happen if a drone got sucked into an engine or crashed into a plane's windscreen.
Last month, the British Airline Pilots Association noted that while the threat of bird strikes had been well researched, there was little data about how much damage a drone could cause a plane.
The incident follows a warning earlier this year by the head of the International Air Transport Association that drones flown by the general public are "a real and growing threat" to civilian aircraft.
Tony Tyler called for drone regulations to be put in place before any serious accidents occurred.
The UK Air Proximity Board – which investigates near-miss incidents in UK airspace – said there had been a number of serious near-misses at UK airports involving drones.
Category A incidents – the most serious – were reported at Stansted, Heathrow, London City and Manchester airports last year.
David Black, from Blackwing Aerial Services – a company that specialises in licensed commercial drones – said education and enforcement of the current rules were important, particularly for hobbyists.
"I think a register is a good idea," he said. "With firearms it has shown it's a good thing… but it has not stopped bad guys from getting guns. If you're going to use them as weapons, bad guys can build them themselves.
"You need enforcement but the problem with enforcement is that it costs money and people to carry it out…. There needs to be better technology for detection and avoidance."
Drone incidents at UK airports
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17 April 2016 – A British Airways plane approaching Heathrow is believed to have hit a drone while in midair
28 November 2015 – The pilot of an A321 plane narrowly missed a drone hovering at 100ft above a runway at Gatwick Airport
30 September 2015 – A small drone helicopter passed within 30ft of the cockpit of an A319 plane while on the approach to Heathrow
22 September 2015 – A "quadcopter-type drone" missed the right-hand side of a B777 plane by about 25m while at 2,000ft after it left Heathrow Airport
13 September 2015 – A silver drone with a "balloon-like" centre missed an E170 aircraft by about 20m, while the plane was approaching London City Airport over the Thames
13 September 2015 – A drone flew over the top of a B737 aircraft while at 4,000ft, missing it by about 5m, shortly after it left Stansted
27 August 2015 – A DO328 aircraft flew within 50ft of a drone while approaching Manchester Airport at 2,800ft
Copyright: BBC News
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"Lighting is everything. It's one of the most important elements in a space, if not the most important," reads a quote by interior designer Leanne Ford on Target's website. "And if you pick the right piece, it doubles as a work of art." While this is often true of the luxurious (and expensive) lighting you spot online or in design magazines, it can also be said about the brand new, inexpensive Project 62 floor lamps that just landed at Target. Yes, thanks to Ford and Target's Project 62, you'll be able to pick up editorial-worthy lighting starting Feb. 10 — for under $100.
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"The light bulb is just as important as the rest of the piece, especially in these open-style lights," said Ford in a quote on Target's blog. "That's why I was so excited to include the bulbs. We are able to help create and control the look of the bulb, but also the type of light it gives off. Those are two big wins for me as a designer."
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Our letter of the week last week was M, so I thought the kids would really enjoy a marshmallow theme. I was right. They loved it…even more than me! We did many marshmallow-related science, reading, and math activities. Looking back there are so many fun things that I would like to share, but I know I won't get to all of them. Over the next few days I will share some of our most favorite activities. You can also find the inspiration for many more of the activities we did over on my Letter M Pinterest Board.
We started by using our five senses to explore the properties of marshmallows. The kids always enjoy using a hand lens, so they spent a while examining all of the sides of the marshmallows.
We squeezed the marshmallows to see if we could hear anything, and they both decided that marshmallows don't make a sound. We briefly talked about why they think marshmallows don't make a sound.
Then they smelled the marshmallows, and we stopped to talk about what the smell made them think of. I wasn't surprised when the first response was, "Eating!" We also tried to think of some describing words to describe the scent.
Next we used our sense of touch to feel the marshmallows. This is the part they really enjoyed! First we felt the outside of the marshmallow and tried to describe how it feels.
Then we pulled the marshmallow apart to feel the inside of the marshmallow. The kids were surprised that it felt different than the outside, and they spent some time pulling the marshmallow into smaller pieces.
To continue using our sense of touch we decided to put water on the marshmallow. Then we could explore whether it feels the same when it is wet as it does when it is dry. They loved getting the marshmallows wet and feeling the change in texture. They also found out that their marshmallows were much harder to hold onto when they were wet!
So that left the sense of taste…I intended to give them clean, dry marshmallows, but I wasn't quite fast enough. Someone said, "Can we eat them?" As I answered and reached for the new marshmallows they both popped a piece of the wet, slimy marshmallows in their mouths, and they didn't hesitate to go back for more. At least we washed our hands before we got started!
That was the beginning of our marshmallow week. Next I will share one of the science experiments we did with marshmallows.
What activities have you done with marshmallows?
What a fun hands on way to learn about the five senses! Super fun! Can't wait to see your science experiments that you did using marshmallows.
Thank you for linking up to the brand new Hearts for Home Blog Hop this week!
Thanks for hosting! I am glad you liked this activity.
I featured your post today at mom's library! I hope you'll share more of your ideas!
Thanks so much for featuring this post, Erin!
Yum. This is a great activity, one I will be using for sure. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks! Hope you enjoy doing the activity.
Ok, this post is just awesome! I am going to keep this in mind for when we do the letter M! We haven't made it there yet.
If you're interested, I'd love to have you link up at my Teaching Time for Toddlers!
I am so glad you liked it, Rachel! It was both fun and a great learning experience. Thanks so much for letting me know about your link up. I'll stop by.
Yum! My kiddos and I love "mushmeddows!" I'll save this one for when they have a little more impulse control…there is no way they could do anything right now other than stuff them in their mouths 🙂 Can't wait to see your other activities!
🙂 My little one calls them "mo-mos." Your little ones might really enjoy Wednesday's activity.
What a great way to learn about the 5 senses! Yum!
Thanks! It was a great beginning to our marshmallow activities.
I love how you took a simple marshmallow and made such an interesting 5 senses activity out of it. I can tell by the pics that they kids really enjoyed it.
Very cute! May have to do this when we talk about senses!
Oh, wow, how fun is this!! Yum!! I will have to remember 'm' for marshmallows when we cover this letter in the alphabet…..my kids would love this!!
Thanks, Janice! All this week I will be posting more of the activities we did…the kids really enjoyed them! Hope you do, too!


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