Rainy Monday
Apr. 13th, 2015 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribIt's Monday and raining here in Chicago. Rain's actually a good thing - I put down mulch yesterday, so a nice soaking will bed it down.
On the Sad Puppy front, Torgersen's gone full-wingnut and invoked the specter of 9/11. Sayth he: I remember in the wake of 9/11 there seemed to be two camps forming. The first camp devoted itself almost entirely to the question: What did we do to deserve this, and how can we say we’re sorry? The second camp asked: How can we bring the perpetrators to justice, and what can be done to stop them in the future?
Sayeth I: what planet are you on? If I were your CO, a "random" piss test for drugs would be in your future.
From Puppies to grills. I've been looking at a low-end Weber gas grill to replace my old Char-Broil. I was hoping they'd go on sale this weekend, but no dice. My inner cheapskate is asking are the Webers really $100 better than the comparable Char-Broils? I mean, my $200 Char-Broil served me well for over a decade.
On the Sad Puppy front, Torgersen's gone full-wingnut and invoked the specter of 9/11. Sayth he: I remember in the wake of 9/11 there seemed to be two camps forming. The first camp devoted itself almost entirely to the question: What did we do to deserve this, and how can we say we’re sorry? The second camp asked: How can we bring the perpetrators to justice, and what can be done to stop them in the future?
Sayeth I: what planet are you on? If I were your CO, a "random" piss test for drugs would be in your future.
From Puppies to grills. I've been looking at a low-end Weber gas grill to replace my old Char-Broil. I was hoping they'd go on sale this weekend, but no dice. My inner cheapskate is asking are the Webers really $100 better than the comparable Char-Broils? I mean, my $200 Char-Broil served me well for over a decade.
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Date: 2015-04-13 03:23 pm (UTC)Seriously? Post Enlightenment crisis? FFS, what the fucking hell does he think WW2 was?
Not to mention, as sooooooo many others have on the thread - there was no bubble if you lived outside of the US you'd been living with terrorism for years.
Hell, some dick blew up a building in the US and killed 150 people in the 1990s and he was a local. Not to mention, American service people had been ongoing targets all over the world for decades too. Seriously, the lack of comprehension, understanding or knowledge of the man is astounding!
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Date: 2015-04-14 02:12 am (UTC)And the USA I lived in was in the second camp to the point where we started a couple of wars over it, in a rather hasty and poorly-thought-out manner, I thought at the time. I'm not quite sure what alternate reality he came from but it clearly had a much stronger "let's look at the actual history and see how we got here" contingent.
Regarding the grills, if the Weber is easier to use, and in particular easier to clean, than the Char-Broil, you may wind up blessing the money spent. If not, maybe not so much.
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Date: 2015-04-14 05:23 am (UTC)http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/04/09/a-response-to-george-r-r-martin-from-the-author-who-started-sad-puppies/
You might find this interesting… If you bother to read it.
I encountered an article by an extreme-right neo-Zealot acquaintance of mine whom I've called Tweedledee to his (online) face, because the difference between his posts and the Social Justice Warriors is sometimes hard to discern straight off:
> Some people were surprised and others saddened when George R. R. Martin
> came out against the Sad Puppies 3 campaign to restore control of the Hugos
> to the fans, and expressed (some) support for the Scalzi cabal which is
> currently trying to control the nominations and voting. I was not
> surprised, though I am still saddened, because George R. R. Martin is a
> great author, the sort who could succeed in the field even if the Haydens
> of Tor opposed him…
Larry Correia says that he is the one who started that notion rolling, that the award “belongs to the fans” and “it's your award,” &c. - but that he was wrong. Yes, he admits it: “Truth is, the Hugo Awards belong to Worldcon. The World Science Fiction Convention.”
What that has come to mean in practice, how adherence to or departure from Leftist goodthink has come to matter far, far more than good writing, in exactly the manner of their far-from-coincidental role model, the Union of Soviet Writers, he speaks to in this article. I urge you to read it.
“Mind is like parachute - only work when open.”
When the United States and sixty-four other countries had the nerve, the gall to OBJECT to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the USSR responded by tit-for-tat boycotting the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and starting their own “Friendship Games.”
According to Wikipedia,
The TASS news agency [stated] that the "arrogant, hegemonic course of the
Washington administration in international relations is at odds with the
noble ideals of the Olympic movement."
That sounds familiar. Hey, what goes around comes around - when do you suppose we'll see an Anti-Hugo Award? [With mutual tit-for-tat excommunication as well, of course.]
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Date: 2015-04-14 05:45 am (UTC)When the first plane hit the first tower on September 11, 2001, the bubble popped - and the article skidded off the tracks. Up until then, he was speaking true.
Problem is, yes, history wasn't done with us yet - because Leftism is a religion, whether it be environmentalism, feminism, collectivism, the lot. There is dispensed, received, incontestable truth; there are high priests, catechisms - and Inquisitions. The “first camp” he speaks of, the Fifth Column of anti-Western, anti-rational, specifically anti-American subverted intelligentsia, were around for decades before 2001, and the rot they have worked - by deliberate intent and design - on the social fabric of the West is the major reason why the chattering classes in Europe are concerned that they're about to be inundated by an obsolete historical footnote which hasn't conquered anyone under its own power for five hundred years. Islam is no stronger per se than it ever was - it simply hasn't changed, while the West has been systematically and deliberately poisoned, weakened. Teddy Roosevelt would throw up if he saw today's identity-politics-driven “Federal Socialist Union of States,” with its crushing tax burden and the insanely huge, coercive, all-controlling but literally unaccountable Federal Government it feeds.
9/11 is irrelevant save as a minor symptom of all this.