As Reasonable

Nuclear power haters are so weird and detestable. Like, we find free magic rocks that spew power with 1/1000 the impact1 of fossil fuels and we…just don’t use them.

Because people are a little scared. And we treat this as normal and these people as reasonable.

  1. Yes, even including nuclear waste storage and maintenance.

Cult of Mediocrity

I think this is largely true. Sydney is attractive, intelligent, clever and business-savvy — and is not apologetic about any of those things. This damns her as far as the left goes as they have a horrible case of Tall Poppy Syndrome. They deeply, deeply desire to punish anyone who is obviously exceptional in some way.

That’s also what is behind all the buffoonery lately regarding the claims that everyone is exactly the same and no one is smarter than anyone else (and if they are, it’s for bad, “fake” reasons, and if the reasons aren’t fake, they should be, dammit).

Sydney is everything they wish they could be but are not; that galls them and makes them want to hurt her.

Always About Control

It’s such a dumbass clownish piece-of-shit asinine idea that if you can customize the appearance of your software, somehow that will cause meemaw to send all her money to Nigeria.

First, she’s gonna do that anyway. Second, that increases security basically not at all while preventing knowledgeable users from doing what they want.

Which is actually the point. It was always about control. In the specific case I care about the most, the Firefox developers even specifically said they wanted to control what the users do because they knew the “right” way to use the browser and the “right” way is should look and operate.

Security was just the flimsy excuse. It was always about exerting power.

Prefer Rents

Average liberal: Your preferences and tendencies are just what they are because you grew up in a certain social environment! If you’d grown up in Ghana or Thailand, they’d be totally different!

Average non-doof: Ok, what is your point here, exactly? That if everything had been completely different than it was, they’d be completely different? Brilliant. I commend your perspicacity.

(While there are some valid arguments around the Rawlsian veil of ignorance and the universal lot of humanity and the commonality therein, the average liberal is not making this argument and probably does not know who John Rawls even is; rather, they just want to give your shit and your country to some third-worlder because they “deserve” it more than you do.)

Onslaughter

The prosecution of Daniel Penny, the murder of Debrina Kawam by immolation on the NYC subway and the slaughter of Iryna Zarutska pretty much fully turned me against the Democrat/liberal notions of how we should handle public disorder and crime.

Basically, we should be nearly zero tolerance for adult offenders and put people in jail for a long, long time on the first offense. I don’t mean for something like shoplifting. I mean for any violent crime and for repeat offenders who commit property or other crimes. Even for those who are “just” harassing or hassling others, we should be pretty punitive. The whole liberal shtick of, “The poor downtrodden vagrant should get a few free sexual assaults and murders to make him feel better” just doesn’t fly with most people. I don’t give a shit what fake racial disparities it causes. As they used to say, if you can’t do the time don’t do the crime. We need to get back to that and away from the liberal nonsense of, “Having a young woman or two raped and murdered is a small price to pay for a vagrant not to experience a micro-aggression.”

Getting it wrong by arresting the wrong person sometimes is worth it to avoid animals running loose making the world worse for everyone.

Qooqoo

Then I wonder why Western feminists claim the burqa is as feminist as you can possibly be? What’s going on there?

It’s a Country

It’s weird that even saying “India” these days is considered racism. But it’s just a fact: many American jobs have been sent to India. Many more will be sent there. There’s nothing racist about that.

You know you’ve left the path of wisdom when easily-observable facts can no longer be stated plainly for risk of censure.

Deport

It’s pure evil that we imported so much of the Third World to destroy great Western nations. And the worst of it will be imposed on women, as usual. The left is always willing to throw them under the bus. Or in this case, to the animals.