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| Fundamental Concepts - Eff Off |
| 2015-05-04 |
| h/t Instapundit [AceOfSpades] These last few weeks for some reason have been politically very draining, and it's been harder and harder to think of subjects. We've seen instance after instance where the most egregious violations of American sovereignty and law have been trampled, times when our culture has been debased and our traditional values trampled. I know, it has ever been thus, but somehow it seems worse lately, and this week I figured out why: Because nobody seems to care. That's not true. I know that's not true, and so do you, but we're made to believe through the media that we're alone. We're not, and what it is time to do is push back, but we can't push back using our preferred methods. Most of us are here on the right because we value logic and reason over the raw emotionalism of the left. That means that we tend to want to construct long, detailed arguments to prove our points, and as a general rule in a fair debate we destroy the left on the merits of our argument. This reinforces our bias towards intellect over emotion, and we congratulate ourselves that we've proven our point. Now things will surely change! Except they don't. Know why? Nobody's listening. Why is nobody listening? Well, first of all, our coldly logical arguments never get to them. The media cuts and edits and castigates to reinforce their relentlessly leftist point of view so that our arguments never get through. Secondly, many people don't care about well reasoned logical arguments. We live in an age of instant gratification. Like it or not, it's a Vine world out there. Finally, our side has been so demonized that many LIVs won't even bother to listen to what we're saying, dismissing us out of hand. So what's the solution? The solution is "eff off". We have to stop granting the left, and especially the activist left, the SJW types, the courtesy of treating them as if they are legitimate. We need to tell them to eff off. We need to stop debating and start dismissing. Most of what they are saying is so stupid and flimsy that it NEEDS the prop of our treating it seriously to lend it the mantle of legitimacy. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 One wonders how long before the intolerance of the Left no longer allows use to hold our beliefs or express them. Once that happens there seems little hope of a peaceful twilight for the Republic.... |
| Posted by: Phang Spaviper4637 2015-05-04 18:49 |
| #2 Totally agree. I have becoming more and more depressed because "nobody seems to care". I am going to try and follow my wife's suggestion and pretty much quit reading about all this $#it, it short I'm going Galt and telling the world to F*** Off. Of course the "world" doesn't care what I say or do. Stop the world, I'm getting off. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-05-04 16:05 |
| #1 Because nobody seems to care. Nobody does seem to care. The morality of the culture, rule of law, and public order have slipped a cog or two in the recent years. Maybe it's just me but it seems like that happens every Donk cycle of rule. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-05-04 09:24 |