tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post4167545870987442613..comments2024-03-28T09:26:11.184-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: The Way SidewaysAesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-2735902290868657332017-07-02T10:12:59.576-07:002017-07-02T10:12:59.576-07:00The ONLY reason to go out and protest is if there&...The ONLY reason to go out and protest is if there's free coffee and it's peaceful. Other than that, it would be a useless endeavor. Aesop is right - run for local office, hit the local town meetings, raise hell locally and push them back that way. One state it's happening in is New Hampshire. It works. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-78469969703140653562017-07-01T21:41:18.183-07:002017-07-01T21:41:18.183-07:00@George True
I came down on someone whose immediat...@George True<br />I came down on someone whose immediate response was not to deploy facts in support of their own argument, like grown-up rational people do, but instead to immediately posit the false dilemma that I was either too stupid to know any better than my position, or deliberately lying for evil purposes.<br /><br />Fuck that attitude, sideways with a rusty chainsaw. A spanking that doesn't hurt, doesn't help. I aimed to leave a mark, so I don't have to do it twice.<br /><br />As I noted, JJ had a largely worthwhile essay, and this isn't his first good one in recent times. Then it turned silly, like someone calling in to a talk radio show who midway through a thorough and rational explanation brings in aliens, illuminati, and black helicopters.<br /><br />And then deployed jackassery and ad hominem in response to disagreement based on logic and facts. Somebody who goes off half-assed and half-cocked is the <i>last</i> guy I want leading anyone anywhere, let alone telling us where "forward" is.<br /><br />As to what to do, I suggested a number of things at WRSA.<br />As the bloghost there repeats endlessly: local, Local, LOCAL.<br /><i>That</i> is the way forward.<br /><br />Conquer your school board, city council, and city government. Roll up leftism by sheer pigheadedness and force of numbers. Grant them zero safe spaces; make them work (and lose) to maintain any shred of cover, any slightest spot where they can direct the affairs of others, even small children or animals. Marginalize them at every opportunity as the lunatics they are. Even in "safe" districts. Make them bleed money even for the "easy" wins.<br /><br />They're unfit to lead a charge through a wet paper bag, so drive them from any positions they hold, and then figuratively dig in, wire, and mine so they can't counter-attack.<br /><br />Every time they're tested in the court of public opinion, they crater into the ground in flames. And every time they're left alone with any slight sinecure, they turn it into a purulent societal abscess of frothing moonbattery, and seek the next hill to conquer for the Free Shit Army and the forces of stupidity.<br /><br />The slogan for that is simple:<br />No Safe Spaces<br /><br />When they claim tolerance, show their intolerance.<br />When they feign reasonableness, show their grasping ambition.<br />When they signal virtue, show their pustulent depravity.<br /><br />In short, pull back the curtain, and unmask the Great And Powerful Ozs as exactly the small-minded megalomaniacs and petty dictators they are, and run their flying monkey minions right out of town.<br /><br />If necessary, with some tar-applied feathers to better assist their aerodynamic departure.<br /><br />You can face them at the ballot box and the town meeting, or you can wait until they're beating down your front door.<br />I would choose "A", please, at least until "B" is the only available choice.<br />(<i>And would anybody out there really like to hope for help, when things get seriously sporty, from those who were too lazy to raise hell at a public meeting, once lives are on the line? Yeah, thought not.</i>)Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-28490752159850271862017-07-01T19:16:21.479-07:002017-07-01T19:16:21.479-07:00Mr. True,
To qualify my below, I am not opposed t...Mr. True,<br /><br />To qualify my below, I am not opposed to violence per se; it has no inherent value. It is derivative in that the context of its use lends it either virtue or sin. I have used violence both in the military and in law enforcement, so it is not a foreign concept to me. With that said:<br /><br />I would strongly eschew and reject violence, or the calls for same. Violence (unless in a very narrowly and strictly defined act of self-defense) is a favorite of leftists; they thrive on chaos and anarchy. (Sort of like a science fiction monster that thrives and feeds upon negative emotions) Communists embrace violence in a society as a means to obtain more totalitarian statist control. <br /><br />Some others, who had it much worse than us, did not advocate it lightly: "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."<br /><br />Gray<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-23004003067815250982017-07-01T13:45:49.704-07:002017-07-01T13:45:49.704-07:00You came down on JJ pretty hard, Aesop. He is on o...You came down on JJ pretty hard, Aesop. He is on our side after all. That beibg said, you are right of course. I remenber the Tea Party rally on the capital mall. One million people. Gathered to say hell no to more taxes and hell no to Obamacare. The media refused to report it. As far as the MSM was concerned, it Did Not Happen. The few outlets that did mention it said there were only a few thousand people, and that in any case they were all racists who were protesting the fact that we had a black preaident. And our cuckservative Republicans rolled over and allowed the Commiecrats to raise taxes and illegally ram through Commiecare.<br /><br />The Mother of All Rallies, one million Tea Partiers on the capital mall, accomplished nothing. So my question is this: What is the way forward? What can individuals with limited time, money, and energy actually do to make a difference? How do we, either collectively or individually plant an effective IED in the path of the leftist steamroller? <br /><br />You mentioned thoughtful, rational arguments. I have tried that many times with lofo's. In my experience it is like trying to teach pigs to sing. So what about writing well-reasoned articles like the ones found bere? All fine and good, except the lofo's will never read them. So what can we do? Each of us get in the face of one Commie or one lofo every day? What? I don't know. I feel like a missile sitting on the launcher with an intact warhead but with no guidance system.<br /><br />I am reminded of Matt Bracken's short story 'What I Saw at the Revolution'. It was only when actual bullets started exploding the heads of left-media personalities that things began to change for the better. Pictures of media talking heads with rifle scope reticles superimposed over them started appearing on the internet and on printed flyers along with this caption: "If the media lies, the media dies. You take a side, you are along for the ride."<br /><br />I feel we have just about reached that point. Reasoned argument will not work with the media. They are Commies, and they will do what Commies do. And too many lofo's swallow their lies hook line and sinker. So again, what does one do? What is the way forward?George Truenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-2461595772661672462017-07-01T10:03:02.438-07:002017-07-01T10:03:02.438-07:00Aesop,
Thank you for remaining thoughtful. The ex...Aesop,<br /><br />Thank you for remaining thoughtful. The extent of sentimentalism that permeates our culture is troubling. That it seems, at least anecdotally by what one might read, is foreboding.<br /><br />From the most increasingly rare man on earth:<br /><br />"I might not always take decisive action to address a problem, but when I do I first use a process called thinking."<br /><br />Stay thoughtful my friend.<br /><br />GrayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com