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This doesn’t apply to all women but one of my primary disputes with the entire #MeToo movement is that there is the presumption that only the man in the situation is responsible for the behaviors and outcomes.
In my opinion, nothing could be further from the truth, in a general sense anyway. There can be no question that much of the sexual misconduct was unwarranted and uninvited.
But! For eons societies have known that certain provocative behaviors on the part of women are inciteful and can cause social distortion of all kinds. Wars have been fought over beautiful women. It is a badge of honor for a woman to attract such attention.
That is why many orthodox religions require their women, and men for that matter, to wear certain types of conservative clothing and to wear their hair in a certain style. It creates social harmony within that society. And it works.
Not today in America. Not for the last sixty years. Instead, the science (and that’s what it is) of female attraction has used all kinds of methods to attract the attention of the male including pheromone based scents, low cut and revealing clothing, clothing that enhances the female shape, clothing that is striking in appearance, outlandish makeup that often costs more than women spend on feeding their own children! The American Woman is saying in no uncertain terms, look at me, don’t you want it? There can be no question.
Guys on the other hand often have trouble getting dressed in the morning. They come to work half-shaven, their undershirts hanging out, ties draped over their backs from coming in to the building in the wind.
Not women. Nope. That’s not going to happen. Most guys could care less what they look like for the most part as long as it works to a certain extent. But women, women want to be “attractive.” They want to be the center of attention. Look at us! Women spend many times more than men on clothing and makeup, perfume, you name it. Thousands and thousands more.
So, why the dumbfounded look when all the effort put into the grand illusion works? Why blame men for the result you were looking for in the first place?
That’s my take on much of the #MeToo movement. Not all of it of course. But more and more it seems like an excuse to act provocatively and then slink away wearing a Cheshire grin.
Yes, there are a lot of really powerful men out there that are getting their just deserts. But let’s not forget what was on the menu in the first place ladies.
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This post will probably seem callous and unsympathetic though that is not its intent.
The latest teenage “mass shooter” has been accused in the “mass media” of going on a rampage because his repeated advances towards a subject of affection were scorned. But have you seen the pictures of the girl posing invitingly on social media, all dolled up and ready to go, posing seductively, how she dressed? Such a public display on her part could easily be seen as an open invitation.
When her public efforts to demonstrate her “powers of attraction,” what most women seek to achieve we can all agree, were successful, she became repulsive and selective we are told by the media, probably confusing the boy.
I do not here justify his response, but maybe it is time for educators and parents to begin policing the way their charges appear to each other in order to achieve a particular level of order and prevent such responses in the future.
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Tbey were talking politics. One guy (subject) was saying to the other, “Geez, I told him, just because you and that fat cow wife of yours decided to spawn one night doesn’t mean I should have to give you an annual tax break to pay to raise your pimply faced fat-assed kids.”
Luckily my mic wasn’t on because they would have heard me say, “Amen to that brother.”
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I’m single with no dependents or property (land) ownership currently, so if I’m not eligible for all of the social programs and benefits available to those with dependents or property, or rather if I’m not part of the larger plan for this country which is what that is, then why am I taxed in perpetuity as if I am?
Single working people are socialist America’s tax surrogates.
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What if Conservatives instituted Socialist/Communist control methodologies, you know like re-education camps, hard labor for political transgressions, that type of thing?
Of course since Conservatives believe in less government that would be unlikely since all of those socialist methodologies require massive government infrastructure and effort to instill ideology that is counter to free will, a primary tenet of conservatism. In a sense, conservatism is at a distinct disadvantage to socialist and communist forms of government, then, as conservatism is less forceful by definition, leaving you to your own means.
So why has conservatism seen such a revival in the last few years? Precisely that conservatism is the less forceful form of government. When conservatism is bastardized by a political party, then it will lose legitimacy.
I think we are seeing that happen now to a certain extent. Let’s make sure things stay on course. Because they are out there, playing games in traffic to and from work, looking for your internet activity, anything that can be used to demoralize you.
You are entitled to defend yourselves. They will approximate those you love, test you at your perimeter, appear to be like those you work with. Subtle though they may be, if you are alert, you will recognize them. They will try to escalate, to ensnare.
Stay the course.
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The news cycle is going so fast we haven’t heard about it for several weeks though I am all for a trade war with China. Yet, let’s not let the news cycle determine the best foreign and economic policy in this country.
Because I can’t tell you how many times I have purchased something made in China when something was needed, and Chinese made was the only product on the shelf and after only a few uses it was broken or unusable.
The list of poor quality Chinese made products I have had no other choice but to purchase is extensive. Clothing that lasted only a few washes and began to disintegrate, electronics that were so fragile and poorly constructed you couldn’t adjust them, and the list goes on and on.
Just last night I was moving a floor lamp from one room to another, a lamp I rarely use, and the base of the lamp broke out of the lamp and disintegrated all over the carpeting. After looking at the pieces it was evident the lamp was made to stay in one place for the entirely of its life and never be moved. What good is that? The thing wasn’t all that expensive, but when you add up all of the similar incidents of that type, the disintegrating clothing, the broken electronics, the cost is astronomical, not to mention the effort to re-purchase, and the cost of paying for something twice, multiple times, and the taxes, too!
The quality is often so poor it is almost as if it was intentional, planned obsolescence, sabotage, sabotage of a people, a country, a planet, and a way of life! How can I say that? Well, unlike in other countries, in China the government and the military are often involved in industrial production. The government can see directly and knows exactly what is being produced and is doing nothing about it. Now do you see where I am going with this observation?
To be sure, Chinese manufacturers have begun to improve upon quality control. And those American and other foreign concerns that have their production facilities located in China and supervise production have been able to control quality, but for the most part my experiences with “Made in China” have been frustrating, disappointing, and the sum total of money I’ve had to spend on Chinese made products is significant.
For a while, until consumers began to check the label more regularly, that was all that was available at many retailers, even high-end retailers, because the retail margins (profits) generated for the low cost, poor quality Chinese products were so high.
So, if only to protect the American consumer and not just the American producer, as nobody likes to go to war if it isn’t necessary, I am all for a trade war with China. Because at the very least, when it comes to quality control and cost to the consumer, there can be no question who fired the first shot.
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Filling Conservative re-education camps with Socialists and Communists, Part II
Posted by: William Thien on: May 10, 2018
One of the primary structures of communist re-education camps is a series of lessons that inmates must learn in order to be released back in to communist society. The focus of the lessons and how many lessons there are can very. The communist regime or the dictatorship would determine what those lessons would be.
What if conservatives instituted such camps, too? What would their lessons be? Imagine that they might take the form of tenets or commandments perhaps. How would the lessons sound and what would be their focus?
I have some examples. If true, real conservatives instituted a political re-education camp, the first to visit the camps would be politicians that redistribute the wealth of the country to those who provide little in return. Politicians of course do that in order to get elected.
Socialist and communist politicians hiding behind the auspices of one political party or another would be the first to enter the camps, rounded up probably while eating their free lunches or expensive Washington D.C. dinners that are paid for by the tax payer. Conservatives would enter and surround the tables and cart the offending socialists off, toss them in a school bus or trucks of some kind, blindfolded maybe, and off they’d go to the conservative re-education camps, secretly located of course.
The deceptive politicians would be stripped of their fancy business suits and expensive jewelry and given gray pajama-like uniforms with a number on them. They would no longer be referred to by their titles such as Senator this and Congressman that but instead they would be assigned a number and they would keep that number until they completed their re-education and only then would their titles be restored.
The politicians be forced to reveal the location of the wealth they accumulated while in Washington as everyone knows most politicians go to Washington having what might be considered middle-class wealth but after years of incumbency and influence peddling they are often multi-millionaires or wealthier.
Once there, the lessons would begin immediately.
The first lesson might read something like this, a commandment perhaps, and open to revision:
That would be the first and primary lesson of a conservative re-education camps. The result of whoring around shall not result in the tax payer being burdened with the costs to raise the result of that activity, or a child born to a woman out-of-wedlock.
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