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Ideology and Nature

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The extraordinary smugness of people who know nothing but slogans is again on full view:

Somebody posted an old Soviet joke in response and it’s a perfect illustration of how leftist ignorance about the world never changes:

Brezhnev calls in a team of Kosmonauts into the Kremlin.

“Comrades, I have a mission of grave importance for you. The American imperialist capitalists have landed on the moon. This cannot be allowed to stand unchallenged. The Party has therefore decreed you will fly to the sun!”

This announcement caused understandable consternation among the Kosmonauts.

“But Comrade General Secretary, we’ll be incinerated!”

“Worry not, Comrades,” said Brezhnev cheerfully. “We’re not fools. The Party has thought of everything. You will obviously fly at night.”

21 responses to “Ideology and Nature”

  1. methylethyl Avatar
    methylethyl

    Meanwhile, the D nominee exemplifying everything that people hate about Democrats right now: the smugness, the assumption that the MSM will selectively edit to make them look good later, and the absolute taboo on policing their own ranks…

    https://x.com/winwithwinsome/status/1976687770870612056

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Did you see Katie Porter who’s running for Governor of California? You’d think she’s a caricature of a smug, rageful lib. A cartoonish villain. But she’s a real person, a candidate for political office.

      I’ve been following that debacle with mute incomprehension. The woman is clearly unfit to hold any job at all. Are people not seeing it?

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      1. cliff arroyo Avatar
        cliff arroyo

        “Katie Porter”

        Just looked her up… and if she wasn’t real she’d be hilarious. She’s like a combination of White Kamala and Leona Helmsley….

        Since she’s apparently real…. California is screwed if she slithers into office.

        I kind of want to make “Stay out of my fucking shot!” my new catchphrase.

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        1. Clarissa Avatar
          Clarissa

          I honestly thought it was a comedy skit when I first saw it.

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      2. Stringer Bell Avatar
        Stringer Bell

        She was my representative when I lived in Irvine. I was in the graduate student union and we were asked to knock on doors for her during her election campaign, a line I would not cross.

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  2. methylethyl Avatar
    methylethyl

    ” Are people not seeing it?”
    Of course they’re seeing it. But it doesn’t matter because California doesn’t have elections anymore. They set up the polls and make people stand in line to satisfy the letter of the law of course, but the results are determined ahead of time. So it doesn’t matter what she says in public, and she knows it.

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  3. Avi Avatar
    Avi

    ” Are people not seeing it?”
    Of course they’re seeing it. But it doesn’t matter because California doesn’t have elections anymore.

    There’s that of course, but there is also the normalisation of behaviours.

    How can people see through the deviousness and viciousness of a woman who could literally be any of the so-called “liberated” and “empowered” monsters that pass for women in today’s California and any liberal-dominated city or state: their mothers, sisters, wives, girlfriends, neighbours, teachers, police officers and any government official drunk on the scent of power and whose idea of smashing the patriarchy was/is weaponising their femaleness in order to fill the vacuum left by retreating men?

    Behaviour is embodied and if most people are exposed to this kind of embodied vileness nothing short of an epistemic revolution will suffice before we see the return of common sense.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Did you hear about the mashed potatoes incident? She poured hot mashed potatoes on her husband’s head because she was annoyed with him.

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      1. oldcowboy3 Avatar
        oldcowboy3

        Actually most domestic abuse is mutual, and where it isn’t, usually the woman generally initiates the violence. And yes, that behavior runs through families, as in learned abuse.

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        1. Stringer Bell Avatar
          Stringer Bell

          Lesbian relationships have higher rates of domestic abuse than gay relationships.

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          1. Avi Avatar
            Avi

            Lesbian relationships have higher rates of domestic abuse all round: higher than in heterosexual relationships. The lowest rate of domestic abuse is found in gay men’s couples. Who’d have thought?

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            1. cliff arroyo Avatar
              cliff arroyo

              “”rates of domestic abuse”

              Unpleasant idea…. the independent variable in domestic abuse is the presence of a woman.

              No women – lowest rates

              One woman – higher rates

              Two women – highest rates

              Hypothesizing a bit (and based on some research I’m not going to look up) women initiate violence in intimate relationships at very high levels but when this is aimed at men it usually doesn’t cause physical harm (and is often discounted or hand-waved away).

              Men initiate violence (or respond in kind) at lower rates though it tends to be a lot more devastating than female violence.

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              Stringer Bell

              The lowest rate of domestic abuse is found in gay men’s couples.

              I think it makes sense. You don’t initiate violence if you know the other person will fight back with equal or greater force. The domestic equivalent of “an armed society is a polite society” lol.

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              1. Clarissa Avatar
                Clarissa

                I think it’s propaganda. We are talking about a community with sky-high drug use. And when were men prevented from brawling by the idea that the other dude will fight back?

                I believe that the point of the propaganda is to encourage the handing over of infants to gay male couples.

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              2. Stringer Bell Avatar
                Stringer Bell

                The sky-high drug use in the community results more in fucking and sucking than violence, imo. Who knows, though.

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        2. oldcowboy3 Avatar
          oldcowboy3

          My statements were facts, down voting does not alter those truths.

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      oldcowboy3

      The patriarchy always was a feminist bogeyman, a bête noire, a useful justification for vindictive reparations. In reality, it was a societal means of identifying which males are held responsible for the rearing of offspring — it is the corresponding authority that endlessly pisses off the herd ;-D

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    methylethyl

    “Did you see Katie Porter”
    Vids have popped up in my newsfeed several times, and I have to nix them in under two seconds, because I have some primitive ape-reflex reaction to the way she moves her face. As though she has rabies or something, and I have to shut that down and sanitize my desktop to avoid infection. It’s really something. Whatever that is, I can’t let it in my house. Might endanger my young.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Spot on. Imagine her own poor children. No wonder her 12yo daughter is expressing a bizarre interest in needing an abortion.

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    2. oldcowboy3 Avatar
      oldcowboy3

      Not might, some disagreement is inevitable, domestic abuse is not.

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  5. Avi Avatar
    Avi

    I think it’s propaganda.

    I’m sorry Clarissa, but I’m not sure about that.

    When things don’t work out in a gay men’s couple, generally one of the two men leaves.

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