Excellent advice with almost no chance of that advice actually being heard. I have friends on every part of the woke spectrum, although my personal views have meant over the last few years quite a few of my more extreme leftist friends have completely severed contact. Probably the most disturbing results I have seen from this election is a thirst for violence from those I know personally on the left, often combined with truly staggering ignorance about the results of using violence.
In my home state every use of lethal force is reviewed by a county prosecutor. The folks I've talked to since the election in most cases seem to believe that taking action on their fears would pass the reasonable Man test, and I am speaking of drawing and or possibly using a weapon because somebody looked at them in a way they did not like. Before the election I would have agreed with Robert Heinlein that I was not in danger from the left leaning people I knew and you were not in danger from the left-leaning people you knew, but that either of us might well be in danger from the left-leaning people only the other person knew. I am not so sure of that anymore, and that truly saddens me. If civilitas breaks down to the point where I need to be wary of people I've known for 20 years, how does the Republic survive?
While I'm generally optimistic about Republican control, I can't help but think that there are still the Krasensteins, Vindmans, Romneys, and others of that ilk who will readily (arguably "eagerly") bend over and drop trou for the left, to demonstrate that they're Goodlife (from Fred Saberhagen's "Berserker" stories).
I haven't looked, but is it even known what types of books he reads?
I'm sure there are a bunch of TDSers who would proclaim he has trouble with even "Dick and Jane", but dipshits are gonna dipshit, and can mostly be ignored for a lossless compression of data.
Well written; wholeheartedly concur!
Excellent advice with almost no chance of that advice actually being heard. I have friends on every part of the woke spectrum, although my personal views have meant over the last few years quite a few of my more extreme leftist friends have completely severed contact. Probably the most disturbing results I have seen from this election is a thirst for violence from those I know personally on the left, often combined with truly staggering ignorance about the results of using violence.
In my home state every use of lethal force is reviewed by a county prosecutor. The folks I've talked to since the election in most cases seem to believe that taking action on their fears would pass the reasonable Man test, and I am speaking of drawing and or possibly using a weapon because somebody looked at them in a way they did not like. Before the election I would have agreed with Robert Heinlein that I was not in danger from the left leaning people I knew and you were not in danger from the left-leaning people you knew, but that either of us might well be in danger from the left-leaning people only the other person knew. I am not so sure of that anymore, and that truly saddens me. If civilitas breaks down to the point where I need to be wary of people I've known for 20 years, how does the Republic survive?
In the same form as it is, it probably does not.
While I'm generally optimistic about Republican control, I can't help but think that there are still the Krasensteins, Vindmans, Romneys, and others of that ilk who will readily (arguably "eagerly") bend over and drop trou for the left, to demonstrate that they're Goodlife (from Fred Saberhagen's "Berserker" stories).
I'm sure there are...has anyone mentioned to Trump yet the Buckman Option?
I haven't looked, but is it even known what types of books he reads?
I'm sure there are a bunch of TDSers who would proclaim he has trouble with even "Dick and Jane", but dipshits are gonna dipshit, and can mostly be ignored for a lossless compression of data.
It’s going to be GLORIOUS!
Hear, hear.