I truly do not wish bad things to happen to stupid people but sometimes, the only way one learns is by being forced to face the consequences of bad decisions! The phrase "culture war" seems too polite for what we in the West are facing - there is an all out assault on morality, civility, common sense, equality under the law, and basic human rights! And most of the people in charge seem to have NO idea how close to the precipice we are, and therefore, have NO idea how to reverse the trend!
"it's not their fault, they did not know any better" is the death of social contract society. it's wholly incompatible, a license to run protected but unbound. there are a great many people who basically understand and respect only consequence. when you show them that there are none (or worse that bad behavior and predation get rewarded) they go feral and you're basically trying to sustain a civilization among ravening hyenas that no one is allowed to say no to.
the duty of a social contract is not just to the others within it, it's to protect the others within it from those outside of it and the loss of this idea as both prerogative and necessity is how civilizations die
If they "do not know any better", than they are children and they need to be contained and educated until they know enough to be loosed upon a civil society! Or sent back to the uncivil society from whence they came!
Sadly, your word "feral" is the perfect descriptor for the vast number of people who are deliberately being brought in to destabilize Western Civilization!
Just a small but telling example from my own life - I was rear-ended at a car wash last week and when I attempted to speak with the driver, he immediately started screaming at me and getting in my face. I was not hurt and there was no noticeable damage to my car, but in a prior time and place, someone who had done that would have apologized profusely and made sure that I was okay. I am a small statured woman in my 60s so clearly no threat to anyone but this man went out of his way to intimidate me and it worked! I left because I had no idea if he would escalate and it simply was not worth it to me to find out!
Contrast this to another time someone rear-ended my car. I got out of mine, inspected the back and saw there was no real damage. He got out, apologized. I didn't ask for his insurance information, neither did he, and we parted ways amicably. Also, we did not do this in the middle of the street, but rolled into an adjacent parking lot.
I added a comment much further down the thread, which I will delete and post here instead, so that it will be seen by others who responded to my initial post.
"Because it is the only right and fair thing to do, I need to add an addendum to my initial comment! I was just out taking my morning walk and I came to a crosswalk, where a man who is clearly an immigrant, stopped for me and was unfortunately rear-ended by a teenage driver who was probably not paying as much attention as he should have been!
They both stopped and the wronged driver could not have been nicer or more polite, both to me and to the young man who hit him! I gave them both my information and will be happy to give a witness statement!
I am married to the son of immigrants, so I am absolutely not anti-immigrant and I need to make sure that I clarify that! Anyone who wants to come here the right way, follow our laws, learn our language, and contribute to our country should be welcomed!"
All of us, save full blooded Native Americans, are immigrants. And even then, who knows. My Grandfather immigrated from Ireland. And I still maintain there needs to be more efficient immigration practices. There is plenty of room here in spite the assertion that we are "overpopulated."
And that's one of the few instances that I can think of where I would have calmly gotten back in my car, rolled up the windows, locked the doors, and called for police intervention via 911... in the instance where the aggressor attempts to prevent me from any of those aforementioned actions, that's when moral decisions must be made... Be Prepared!
It’s one of the instances I most fear myself. I have been challenged many times. I have always chosen to keep the peace. There’s a loaded gun in my purse. I’ve never pulled it. If my life or others’ was clearly threatened, I would. I fear one of these days my anger at a car wash style incident will want a different response than walking away. The water in the social pot is slowly boiling.
Here they won't do anything if the collision happens on private property like a parking lot, car wash, or similar. It has to happen on a public street.
There's only one alternative to property rights; its an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
Without the right to possess property it will inevitably lead to a situation where we are not sure we really have the right to speak and to be.
"Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property.
But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others.
Thanks for the Bastiat quote. While reading the piece I had a tickle of memory for “plunder versus property” but couldn’t nail it down. That and John Galt’s words to the effect, “no benefit that comes from another man’s labor is a right”.
Paraphrased from Ida Auken's essay, "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better," appeared in 2016. The World Economic Forum (WEF) published the essay. It is a fictional thought experiment about a future where a person uses the sharing economy for everything.
Communism is Satan’s counterfeit to God’s economy, where everyone contributes and shares. But with God, the giving is totally voluntary. In other words it’s true giving. Communism is based on theft. God affirms the right of personal property by saying, “Thou shalt not steal.” Gato’s article hit the nail on the head. You cannot have prosperity for the masses with socialism. Only the most powerful and corrupt have plenty, and even they are reduced, because if you blight the orchard- you get poor fruit. Not only do we see this in the countries that have named themselves communist or socialist, but in smaller tribes all over the globe. Some of the tribes are basically controlled by thugs and others live in tropical abundance but their culture demands that they share everything. Foolish western people call them happy natives, but it’s only those who go to live with them who realize that they cannot improve their lot. Because if they labor for themselves or their family, the non-laborers will “borrow” it, trash it, or consume it. They only learn how to plunder, not produce. For an interesting and unintentionally enlightening read, read “The Sex Lives of Cannibals” (not sure if the title is exactly correct, I read it decades ago).
Yeah, but don't forget as soon as Bernie became a millionaire he upped the ante and starting going after billionaires. I'm just shocked that a self proclaimed socialist never got around to redistributing his ill-gotten millions!
Unfortunately we don’t own property in the USA. Property rights went *poof* when counties or towns got the ability to take property for nonpayment of property taxes. This whole essay is moot. Just try protecting your property with violence when your municipality or county comes to collect.
True. This has happened to us personally several times. When it’s for redevelopment and NOT public use infrastructure (like a library) it’s called “condemnation.” Doesn’t matter how good a shape the building is. Very communist practice. I think SCOTUS got it wrong when they approved it. They occasionally get things wrong. Sometimes they self-correct.
Fire. Take my shit I will burn this world to the ground. Maybe people should grow a pair. I give 2 fucks about the simplistic worthless eaters in this world. War needs to ensue over this bs.
Where do you direct your anger? This is universal amongst municipalities in USA. It is wrong, anti-constitutional, but needs to come to the public consciousness and to the fore.
Below is a wonderfully worded protest to support DEIA. What confuses me about the argument is how many non whites over the last 100 years seem to do so well.
"The racist who can’t see their own race constructed a system that only functions if whiteness stays invisible, stays default, stays “just normal.” Merit operates on the assumption that one race is actually no race at all. Just people. Just natural. Just deserving."
Unfortunately the bad/idiotic/clueless/braindead people generally end up taking down the good people long before they suffer any effects personally themselves.
Unfortunately true, as evidenced by the complete destruction of dozens of once beautiful Blue cities across the US, which have become crime infested hellholes due to decades of one party rule. Eventually, all of the law abiding citizens relocate, but many of them then move to well run Red cities and proceed to ruin them by voting for all of the same people/policies that they just left!
Astounding what its residents have allowed to happen. I do understand that much of this can be blamed on mail-in voting but when you see your world disintegrating more than wringing one's hands is necessary.
We have also experienced a huge influx of blue state voters, mainly from CA over the last 20 years that have skewed our demographics. I work in a business that basically cater to the rich Californians who have infested the Puget Sound Islands. I am glad I now have an office off the warehouse so I don't have to hear as much smug dem/anti Trump BS as I used to when I worked upstairs.
These are people who champion the migrants, but live on an island that the migrants can't casually reach. They believe in environmentalism and have electric cars, but buy century old summer homes and either gut them and replace the insides with plastic crap in grey and taupe, or tear them down altogether and build a mini mansion (hauled over from the mainland on barges). They shrug when acres of forest are cut down to accomodate their expansion. They believe in all the social justice crap but are themselves very homogenous.
Meanwhile, out in the greater county, I'm seeing more and more weirdness: Gang grafitti, reckless drivers, fent addicts, etc. And housing is unaffordable anywhere which is why I live in a 30 foot RV.
I'm pissed, but there is nothing I can do but move someday when it gets too much. Between the motor voter shit (which extends to jury selection- think about that, the illegals have a chance to judge their own and how that might even tie a non-activist judges hands...), mail in and the influx of both Californians and the leeches who have come to exploit the resources in the local cities- the truly good people of WA state don't stand a fucking chance.
PS, there is now a recorded billion missing from the state budget as the governor expands the definition of sales tax to get more income. Prices will go up and these idiots will all blame Trump and tariffs...
I saw a billboard on interstate 95 in Florida just across the border from Georgia that read “Welcome to Florida! Leave your voting habits in New York”…Fantastic!. Our Governor has now taken steps to end Property Taxes! It is beginning to look like We will be voting on it at midterm elections! Locals governments have abused property owners to no end in our Great State… The time to end the Tax Farm conditions and abusive spending by theses elected Crooks paying out unaccountable NGOs is very near!
We're already over the precipice imo. We are in the highest risk economic situation this country has ever been in; a situation where you have multiple catalytic factors, wherein any slight pertubation of a single factor could cause collapse, irrespective of all the other factors.
My prediction for collapse is when baby boomers start selling their houses en mass. That's a lot of inventory, potential beyond the means of people that are starting families, which will be exaggerated by virtue of high rates as a result of underwriting risk.
We’re already there in my area. It takes a household income of $90k/year to rent an apartment in Puget Sound. My son is 23. Of his graduating class (2020), he knows five are dead but only two have managed to launch and live in their own apartment. None can afford to buy a house. None can afford to start a family.
If nobody has any money it doesn't matter. Especially in a hyperinflationary period prior to the bubble popping.
Those with cash will scoop up all the assets, after Humpty-Dumpty shatters in a million pieces on the ground. Plus banks will just reclaim assets. They'll be so much REO bought at county doorsteps that they'll be on a fire sale.
How many people are going to be able to afford those homes? The average family now has $24k credit card debt with $800 dollars in cash on hand.
Plus you're forgetting that, and BK's, and commercial property vacancies. What will the properties look like while people squat there for 12-18 months before they're forced out? Will anyone do maintenance or upgrades. What happens to properties that are left vacant for to long? Nature will reclaim and consumes them.
2 trillion in debt at 25% is a ticking time bomb. We have a higher individual debt to income than we did at the beginning of the Great Recession.
Interests rates are a reflection of risk. I wonder if underwriting will be more strict or looser in that situation?...rhetorical.
You're also forgetting the baby boomers aren't going to be buying new houses. They'll either be dead, infirmed or downgrading into smaller homes - further exacerbating the challenge for home ownership for young families.
All the little old towns here have lost their core as the old people either die or sell off. The locals cannot replace them, but the rich do. And I don't know how all the mexican migrants can buy land and houses, but they seem to do so as well.
There is that too. Some of it IMO is the covid stuff. We used to have a few small towns locally centered around a market or two and maybe a restaurant. These places closed during the lockdowns and never returned. It becomes a cascade as more and more people just leave.
And there are undercurrents, such as companies (here it is often farming or logging companies, but there are others) who just buy up land when it becomes available. There are sections of the country here dotted with houses that are just rotting due to these kind of sales. It makes me sad, it is such a waste.
I don’t disagree though I’d say that applies to Blackrock and big cities. Those sad dying towns are still sad dying towns. No Blackrock, at least not yet.
It’s not sometimes, but always that one learns by facing consequences for bad decisions. I was taught this as a child. And you get rewarded for making good choices.
This may sound a bit cruel and/or heartless, but I never said that I was nice and kind... most particularly to stupid people... In point of fact, I do wish bad things to happen to stupid people... It's often said, "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."... or "FAFO"... I say if those things that happen to stupid people are bad enough... even to the point of horrendous... then as time proceeds, there will be fewer and fewer stupid people. Problem solved.
As to your "stupid people" observation, Michael Gerald Gibbs (the “just cooperate” guy): just wow! Ol’ Gibbsy posts ALL the insignia of a true Woke Warrior: the wool cap, LGBTQ etc. flag, Canadian maple leaf, Ukraine flag, preferred pronouns. I wonder whether there is room in his bio a few more descriptors: gullible, naive, over-trusting, exploitable, easily deceived, easily led, unworldly, callow, . . . . childlike.
It is manifest that very few people in charge care about others, and most are trying to wipe away not only America, but the memory of America, from the Earth. America stood for freedom because of righteousness. It was THE place of hope for prosperity and peace. Evil rulers hated it because it gave their slaves ideas and hopes. Now we have become slaves and are still being reduced.
We need to realize that the basis of everything good is God, and that we can’t win true freedom and happiness without teaching our children about Him.
This was covered pretty much long ago by God’s twelfth commandment: “Exodus 20:15: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.””
Nah, the system which allows that will also allow the plunderer to be deprived of his goods. This is why drug dealers are always poor despite their captive customer basis.
Bastiat may have been referring to legalized plunder, or rent seeking. I was referring to conditions where the state abandons its law enforcement duties and allows plunderers to succeed, but only until other crooks confiscate their loot.
I lived in Sydney for over 18 years. Starting in ‘87. The way it was then is how I hope to remember it.
I felt betrayed when Howard made gun ownership so difficult, and suspected there was more than Port Arthur, as horrific as it was, behind the disarming of the citizens.
I hope the good people of Australia can wrestle their county back from the globalist ratbags.
Urm. Port Arthur. False Flag. No way Martin Bryant, IQ of 65, got 20-30 headshots in 3 minutes. If you talk to trained military, there may be a dozen operatives worldwide trained at that level. Friend-of-a-friend was invited to participate - apparently all Aussies refused, so they had to bring in foreign contractors. Word is, Yanks.
Give Martin Bryant a break! Poor kid, incarcerated, drugged to the gills. Without a trial. (because evidence in a trial could be problematic....)
As was Western North Carolina, East Palestine OH and Los Angeles. Also the wildfire raging throughout Canada. Glyphosate, a desiccant, is being sprayed in Canadian forests for maximum damage.
This is rampant in Australia at the moment. House prices and rents are out of control and we have a smirking moron of an energy minister trampling all over our arable farmland to install his “renewable energy” unicorns.
Illegal immigration (I call it what it is: invasion) has slowed considerably here in the US. I suspect the flood of emigration will pick up steam as non-citizens are having their meal tickets cancelled. No more public housing or state-paid medical “care” (such as it is). The southern border seems to have been sealed. The red carpet is being rolled up.
The northern border is still a worry since Canada now is almost a hostile country.
One of the most distressing books I ever read (and I was an adult when I read it) was "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH." Your home is about to be destroyed and you have a kid sick in bed with pneumonia and he can't move with the rest of you to your summer place.
One of my most persistent lifelong recurring [dream] nightmares is the door that can't be locked. It falls off its frame or its hinges; it just doesn't fit when you try to lock it, etc. etc. etc.--the frantic despair of not being able to secure your home is something I sure hope I never experience in real life. I look at those photo spreads of rich people's fancy floor-to ceiling glass-walled mansions and I wonder each time "what the all hell are they thinking?" Just at least give me a fighting chance when the wolves come crashing through.
Thank God I don't live in Canada. I ain't no skilled fighter and I'm not even safe to myself wielding a potato peeler sometimes, but I got this automatic reaction to being attacked (ask me about them muggings sometime) that's outsize to my actual capabilities and at least maybe if I'm lucky in the moment I can take an eye out or something and maybe that would be enough to make the bad guy think "that lady is nuts!" and force him into a retreat with the blood running down his face, or something.
Since Our Plague Era began I've said "thank God I'm an American" more times than in my whole entire life before, and one of the wonders of the world is that I ended up a Second Amendment absolutist too.
These are the things that happen to those of us that just want to be left alone and we get infringed upon. We are stronger than we imagine and can do things we never wanted to do. I learned that I'm not as afraid of dying as I am of pain and I'm not as afraid of pain as I am of living as a coward.
Mrs Frisby was as harrowing as any 'adult' novel. Another that made an impression on me was 'Z for Zachariah'- a book that taught that perhaps it was better to rely on yourself after the unthinkable because anyone who came around because you had built something might not have your best interest at heart...
Right now, I am sitting on a trove of old Sci Fi that I found in a thrift shop. Richard Matheson, Fritz Leiber, Leigh Brackett, Ellison, Kornbluth...I used to read a book every day or so. I've gotten quite flabby, digesting only a chapter or two once a week when I do laundry and treat myself at a local restaurant.
It is my goal to have backup pairs of glasses- I do not want to be Burgess Meredith, with all the time in the world to read after there is nothing left to do and be unable to do it because I didn't stash a bunch of reader lenses when I could...
My otherwise wretched father introduced me to sci fi by leaving the paperbacks he got from his brothers on his night table, and I read them as soon as he was out of the house for the night (he worked the night shift).
So I read plenty of '50s classics and then various life adventures left serious gaps in my collection. The old Barnes & Noble remainders bins helped fill some of those in.
But whenever someone recommends something to me that I hadn't heard of, I'll look at the publication date and go "Ah! I was...at the time..."
Having a kid was of course useful for filling in some of those gaps. Buying books for him was one of the most satisfying parts of motherhood
I try to undo a knot in yarn and my finger slips and then I have to stop working so I don't bleed all over my project. It's just amazing I made it all the way to the tarnishing years before I started fracturing bones. [Fortunately all that Vitamin C and cheddar cheese make me a fast healer.]
I was very cheered but surprised at how well I bounced back. It's true that my right hand looks a little peculiarly attached now but it's fully functional again, thank God, and that's the part that matters.
Lol... bro has the ukraine flag in his bio... by his logic ukraine shouldn't have fought back and just let russia take it all... It's just laaaaand maaaannnn!!! no use dying over it!!! lmao...
Lol. That's the ultimate question.. this kookoo show is great btw... in an extremely absurdist way... an original dadaist would look back at now and be all "dude wtf is going on....? this is weird. How do I mock this??"
Any bit of my stuff that's in my house is worth more than the life of a person who would attempt to take it. Ask for it, and I'll probably give you what you ask for. Try to take it and you've declared war on me, and violence is the only correct response to violence.
I don’t view it as a matter of weighing the value of my property against the value of the criminal’s life. If someone breaks into my home, I can’t read their mind and know what their goal is, so I have to assume the worst, since, by the time I find out for sure, it’s going to be too late.
Completely agree. Anyone so unhinged as to break into my house puts me very much in reasonable fear of death or great physical harm. So I would easily shoot "to stop the threat."
I believe that every human life is sacred - to God. To other humans? Debatable! If someone wants to take chances that risk their lives, that's their personal responsibility.
“so you’d kill a robber to protect your things? your wallet is more important than his life?”
Didn’t the robber already make that calculation by trying to steal from me in the 1st place?
I was always taught that whenever you break into someone’s house, place of business or whatever that there is a very high probability that you will be killed. So I always need to do a risk/reward calculation before any action I decide to persue.
It’s the robber that has decided that my wallet is more valuable to him than his own life; not me. 🤷♂️
I’m not the one making that call, the robber is. I’m just enforcing the law..of consequences.
In a sane world, the man waltzing unannounced into someone's home with a knife in his hand forfeits all of his rights and essentially plays roulette with his life. Perpetrators need to understand that the potential for an imminent bullet through the head weighs heavily in their risk analysis.
If the Canadians have decided it is not appropriate to defend yourself against home invasion how can they possibly be willing to help defend another country.
There is no one size fits all answer; wheelguns have their place, as do autos. S&W Model 10 is a fine multi-purpose gun. When I started in LE, standard issue was the S&W Model 66, but I didn't have any complaints when they switched over to the Beretta 96D. I don't pretend to be any kind of gun wizard, but I never had any issue with the Beretta, although there were those that hated it.
This is the modern mindset: pampered, naive, full of confidence that every other group on Earth is just as trusting and orderly and (outwardly) NICE as the folks in your graduate SOC seminar. It's a denial of history and cultural variation and incentives.
This mindset is so pervasive in the West for two reasons: it flatters the psychological identities of the believers (and gains them status), and it is extremely useful for the expansion of the bureaucratic regime.
Of course it's based on obviously false assumptions and demands that the individual repudiate millennia of human wisdom and civilizational labor. All of that discarded simply so weakling can virtue signal online and feel good about themselves as they go about their protected and artificial lives.
Well the robber certainly seemed to think so. Even if I'm not armed, he doesn't know that I'm not a former SEAL or Green Beret capable of killing him with my bare hands; he was willing to risk his life for my wallet, why wouldn't I also be willing to risk his life for my wallet?
I have had great service from the staff at 'Young Farts RV Parts'. IIRC they are in Alberta and are owned by a couple of relatively young brothers who recycle RVs.
They have had a consistently great selection: thanks to them, I was able to replace the face/surface control panel of an air conditioner long out of production. I have bought a bunch of other stuff since and they have decent shipping costs even to the US.
I once spent an informative half hour talking to one of their phone staff about RV stuff, nice people, good service, decently priced parts and I get to support a bunch of local rural folk making a living somewhere.
I am trying to accept that the Canadian official telling people to leave their keys where thieves can easily access them is not an AI fake. I know it isn't fake, but as real "advice," that's next level insane.
Will his next advice be to sleep downstairs and not resist when they rape you (before they take your car), because they don't want to kill you and your kids upstairs will be left alone?
Canadian police have long crossed the useless-to-outright-dangerous Rubicon. It's at the point where many people in Canada would consider their communities *safer*, without *any* police than the uniformed slop epitomized by that imbecile in the clip.
In rural Canada especially you hear whispers of "town justice" solving problems more effectively than some incompetent copper worried more about completing their DEI modules than actually keeping communities safe. And it gets worse the further up you go, as legal indoctrination now actively discriminates against anyone daring to challenge the state's monopoly on violence in terms of self-defence, especially against "racialized" suspects who are now at the top of the status table in our multi-tiered, "post-colonial" disgrace of a legal system.
I truly do not wish bad things to happen to stupid people but sometimes, the only way one learns is by being forced to face the consequences of bad decisions! The phrase "culture war" seems too polite for what we in the West are facing - there is an all out assault on morality, civility, common sense, equality under the law, and basic human rights! And most of the people in charge seem to have NO idea how close to the precipice we are, and therefore, have NO idea how to reverse the trend!
"it's not their fault, they did not know any better" is the death of social contract society. it's wholly incompatible, a license to run protected but unbound. there are a great many people who basically understand and respect only consequence. when you show them that there are none (or worse that bad behavior and predation get rewarded) they go feral and you're basically trying to sustain a civilization among ravening hyenas that no one is allowed to say no to.
the duty of a social contract is not just to the others within it, it's to protect the others within it from those outside of it and the loss of this idea as both prerogative and necessity is how civilizations die
If they "do not know any better", than they are children and they need to be contained and educated until they know enough to be loosed upon a civil society! Or sent back to the uncivil society from whence they came!
Sadly, your word "feral" is the perfect descriptor for the vast number of people who are deliberately being brought in to destabilize Western Civilization!
Just a small but telling example from my own life - I was rear-ended at a car wash last week and when I attempted to speak with the driver, he immediately started screaming at me and getting in my face. I was not hurt and there was no noticeable damage to my car, but in a prior time and place, someone who had done that would have apologized profusely and made sure that I was okay. I am a small statured woman in my 60s so clearly no threat to anyone but this man went out of his way to intimidate me and it worked! I left because I had no idea if he would escalate and it simply was not worth it to me to find out!
Contrast this to another time someone rear-ended my car. I got out of mine, inspected the back and saw there was no real damage. He got out, apologized. I didn't ask for his insurance information, neither did he, and we parted ways amicably. Also, we did not do this in the middle of the street, but rolled into an adjacent parking lot.
I added a comment much further down the thread, which I will delete and post here instead, so that it will be seen by others who responded to my initial post.
"Because it is the only right and fair thing to do, I need to add an addendum to my initial comment! I was just out taking my morning walk and I came to a crosswalk, where a man who is clearly an immigrant, stopped for me and was unfortunately rear-ended by a teenage driver who was probably not paying as much attention as he should have been!
They both stopped and the wronged driver could not have been nicer or more polite, both to me and to the young man who hit him! I gave them both my information and will be happy to give a witness statement!
I am married to the son of immigrants, so I am absolutely not anti-immigrant and I need to make sure that I clarify that! Anyone who wants to come here the right way, follow our laws, learn our language, and contribute to our country should be welcomed!"
All of us, save full blooded Native Americans, are immigrants. And even then, who knows. My Grandfather immigrated from Ireland. And I still maintain there needs to be more efficient immigration practices. There is plenty of room here in spite the assertion that we are "overpopulated."
Amen!! My family also came from Ireland and they were thankful for the opportunities available to them here!
Jimmy, where did "natives" come from. Did they not move across the land bridge between Asia and present day Alaska?
And even then, so called "native" peoples migrated to North America from Asia.
My feeling is that peaceful people who wish to come to America, learn English, work hard, value freedom, and have children, are *already* Americans.
And that's one of the few instances that I can think of where I would have calmly gotten back in my car, rolled up the windows, locked the doors, and called for police intervention via 911... in the instance where the aggressor attempts to prevent me from any of those aforementioned actions, that's when moral decisions must be made... Be Prepared!
It’s one of the instances I most fear myself. I have been challenged many times. I have always chosen to keep the peace. There’s a loaded gun in my purse. I’ve never pulled it. If my life or others’ was clearly threatened, I would. I fear one of these days my anger at a car wash style incident will want a different response than walking away. The water in the social pot is slowly boiling.
Well said, and well played.
You can not take a bullet back;
but you can send it on its way to ANY real target . . .
Here they won't do anything if the collision happens on private property like a parking lot, car wash, or similar. It has to happen on a public street.
I don't know where "here" is, but where I live, public or private, it doesn't matter... the cops will come!
open up your phone camera. That helps, too.
There's only one alternative to property rights; its an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
Without the right to possess property it will inevitably lead to a situation where we are not sure we really have the right to speak and to be.
"Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property.
But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others.
This process is the origin of plunder."
- Bastiat
Thanks for the Bastiat quote. While reading the piece I had a tickle of memory for “plunder versus property” but couldn’t nail it down. That and John Galt’s words to the effect, “no benefit that comes from another man’s labor is a right”.
"You will own nothing and be happy."
Paraphrased from Ida Auken's essay, "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better," appeared in 2016. The World Economic Forum (WEF) published the essay. It is a fictional thought experiment about a future where a person uses the sharing economy for everything.
Yeh, good luck with that! The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock with that in mind - and, how that experiment worked out. [It did not last very long!]
Communism is Satan’s counterfeit to God’s economy, where everyone contributes and shares. But with God, the giving is totally voluntary. In other words it’s true giving. Communism is based on theft. God affirms the right of personal property by saying, “Thou shalt not steal.” Gato’s article hit the nail on the head. You cannot have prosperity for the masses with socialism. Only the most powerful and corrupt have plenty, and even they are reduced, because if you blight the orchard- you get poor fruit. Not only do we see this in the countries that have named themselves communist or socialist, but in smaller tribes all over the globe. Some of the tribes are basically controlled by thugs and others live in tropical abundance but their culture demands that they share everything. Foolish western people call them happy natives, but it’s only those who go to live with them who realize that they cannot improve their lot. Because if they labor for themselves or their family, the non-laborers will “borrow” it, trash it, or consume it. They only learn how to plunder, not produce. For an interesting and unintentionally enlightening read, read “The Sex Lives of Cannibals” (not sure if the title is exactly correct, I read it decades ago).
great comment.
Very wise they were.
Funny when I remember that Bernie was kicked out of his commune in earlier life.
Yeah, but don't forget as soon as Bernie became a millionaire he upped the ante and starting going after billionaires. I'm just shocked that a self proclaimed socialist never got around to redistributing his ill-gotten millions!
I noticed! 😂
Yeah, I used to like Bernie. But he took the shot and lost his mind.
Unfortunately we don’t own property in the USA. Property rights went *poof* when counties or towns got the ability to take property for nonpayment of property taxes. This whole essay is moot. Just try protecting your property with violence when your municipality or county comes to collect.
We vote at midterms to end property taxes here in Florida! 86 the tax farm!
Yay FL !
Yea keep believing in fantasy. They’ll get you another way
@ Yank state funds for anti-democratic groups. Save the cash for other things.
True. This has happened to us personally several times. When it’s for redevelopment and NOT public use infrastructure (like a library) it’s called “condemnation.” Doesn’t matter how good a shape the building is. Very communist practice. I think SCOTUS got it wrong when they approved it. They occasionally get things wrong. Sometimes they self-correct.
Fire. Take my shit I will burn this world to the ground. Maybe people should grow a pair. I give 2 fucks about the simplistic worthless eaters in this world. War needs to ensue over this bs.
Where do you direct your anger? This is universal amongst municipalities in USA. It is wrong, anti-constitutional, but needs to come to the public consciousness and to the fore.
This is true
The Law
If it is truly not their fault, then they do not have the capacity to sign a contract, even a social one, and should be taken off the street.
Even a small child knows right from wrong
Yes they do.
....and put them where? Is this the "camps" I've been hearing about?
Below is a wonderfully worded protest to support DEIA. What confuses me about the argument is how many non whites over the last 100 years seem to do so well.
"The racist who can’t see their own race constructed a system that only functions if whiteness stays invisible, stays default, stays “just normal.” Merit operates on the assumption that one race is actually no race at all. Just people. Just natural. Just deserving."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-172850361
Unfortunately the bad/idiotic/clueless/braindead people generally end up taking down the good people long before they suffer any effects personally themselves.
Unfortunately true, as evidenced by the complete destruction of dozens of once beautiful Blue cities across the US, which have become crime infested hellholes due to decades of one party rule. Eventually, all of the law abiding citizens relocate, but many of them then move to well run Red cities and proceed to ruin them by voting for all of the same people/policies that they just left!
Tell me about it.
Me, too. I mourn the PNW.
Astounding what its residents have allowed to happen. I do understand that much of this can be blamed on mail-in voting but when you see your world disintegrating more than wringing one's hands is necessary.
We have also experienced a huge influx of blue state voters, mainly from CA over the last 20 years that have skewed our demographics. I work in a business that basically cater to the rich Californians who have infested the Puget Sound Islands. I am glad I now have an office off the warehouse so I don't have to hear as much smug dem/anti Trump BS as I used to when I worked upstairs.
These are people who champion the migrants, but live on an island that the migrants can't casually reach. They believe in environmentalism and have electric cars, but buy century old summer homes and either gut them and replace the insides with plastic crap in grey and taupe, or tear them down altogether and build a mini mansion (hauled over from the mainland on barges). They shrug when acres of forest are cut down to accomodate their expansion. They believe in all the social justice crap but are themselves very homogenous.
Meanwhile, out in the greater county, I'm seeing more and more weirdness: Gang grafitti, reckless drivers, fent addicts, etc. And housing is unaffordable anywhere which is why I live in a 30 foot RV.
I'm pissed, but there is nothing I can do but move someday when it gets too much. Between the motor voter shit (which extends to jury selection- think about that, the illegals have a chance to judge their own and how that might even tie a non-activist judges hands...), mail in and the influx of both Californians and the leeches who have come to exploit the resources in the local cities- the truly good people of WA state don't stand a fucking chance.
PS, there is now a recorded billion missing from the state budget as the governor expands the definition of sales tax to get more income. Prices will go up and these idiots will all blame Trump and tariffs...
Amazingly - they seem to blame the red people for their blue problems.
I saw a billboard on interstate 95 in Florida just across the border from Georgia that read “Welcome to Florida! Leave your voting habits in New York”…Fantastic!. Our Governor has now taken steps to end Property Taxes! It is beginning to look like We will be voting on it at midterm elections! Locals governments have abused property owners to no end in our Great State… The time to end the Tax Farm conditions and abusive spending by theses elected Crooks paying out unaccountable NGOs is very near!
Usually through elected office.
Through any kind of power structure.
So well said.
We're already over the precipice imo. We are in the highest risk economic situation this country has ever been in; a situation where you have multiple catalytic factors, wherein any slight pertubation of a single factor could cause collapse, irrespective of all the other factors.
My prediction for collapse is when baby boomers start selling their houses en mass. That's a lot of inventory, potential beyond the means of people that are starting families, which will be exaggerated by virtue of high rates as a result of underwriting risk.
The average baby boomer is 75
Tik-tok.
We’re already there in my area. It takes a household income of $90k/year to rent an apartment in Puget Sound. My son is 23. Of his graduating class (2020), he knows five are dead but only two have managed to launch and live in their own apartment. None can afford to buy a house. None can afford to start a family.
Uggh
The house apocalypse Ryan is referring to should considerably lower prices though.
If nobody has any money it doesn't matter. Especially in a hyperinflationary period prior to the bubble popping.
Those with cash will scoop up all the assets, after Humpty-Dumpty shatters in a million pieces on the ground. Plus banks will just reclaim assets. They'll be so much REO bought at county doorsteps that they'll be on a fire sale.
How many people are going to be able to afford those homes? The average family now has $24k credit card debt with $800 dollars in cash on hand.
Plus you're forgetting that, and BK's, and commercial property vacancies. What will the properties look like while people squat there for 12-18 months before they're forced out? Will anyone do maintenance or upgrades. What happens to properties that are left vacant for to long? Nature will reclaim and consumes them.
2 trillion in debt at 25% is a ticking time bomb. We have a higher individual debt to income than we did at the beginning of the Great Recession.
Interests rates are a reflection of risk. I wonder if underwriting will be more strict or looser in that situation?...rhetorical.
I could go on...and on.
You're also forgetting the baby boomers aren't going to be buying new houses. They'll either be dead, infirmed or downgrading into smaller homes - further exacerbating the challenge for home ownership for young families.
Buy a stake in a nursing home. That's where a lot of their money will end up.
the people likely to buy those assets are corporate, not individuals.
That's a catastrophe. Sorry to hear.
Happening here.
All the little old towns here have lost their core as the old people either die or sell off. The locals cannot replace them, but the rich do. And I don't know how all the mexican migrants can buy land and houses, but they seem to do so as well.
As I travel around the west I see a lot of dead towns which are just dead not being populated by the rich. 🤔
There is that too. Some of it IMO is the covid stuff. We used to have a few small towns locally centered around a market or two and maybe a restaurant. These places closed during the lockdowns and never returned. It becomes a cascade as more and more people just leave.
And there are undercurrents, such as companies (here it is often farming or logging companies, but there are others) who just buy up land when it becomes available. There are sections of the country here dotted with houses that are just rotting due to these kind of sales. It makes me sad, it is such a waste.
the rich don't want to populate it. They want to rent it back to us.
I don’t disagree though I’d say that applies to Blackrock and big cities. Those sad dying towns are still sad dying towns. No Blackrock, at least not yet.
It’s not sometimes, but always that one learns by facing consequences for bad decisions. I was taught this as a child. And you get rewarded for making good choices.
This may sound a bit cruel and/or heartless, but I never said that I was nice and kind... most particularly to stupid people... In point of fact, I do wish bad things to happen to stupid people... It's often said, "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."... or "FAFO"... I say if those things that happen to stupid people are bad enough... even to the point of horrendous... then as time proceeds, there will be fewer and fewer stupid people. Problem solved.
Also laziness makes you stupid.
As to your "stupid people" observation, Michael Gerald Gibbs (the “just cooperate” guy): just wow! Ol’ Gibbsy posts ALL the insignia of a true Woke Warrior: the wool cap, LGBTQ etc. flag, Canadian maple leaf, Ukraine flag, preferred pronouns. I wonder whether there is room in his bio a few more descriptors: gullible, naive, over-trusting, exploitable, easily deceived, easily led, unworldly, callow, . . . . childlike.
It is manifest that very few people in charge care about others, and most are trying to wipe away not only America, but the memory of America, from the Earth. America stood for freedom because of righteousness. It was THE place of hope for prosperity and peace. Evil rulers hated it because it gave their slaves ideas and hopes. Now we have become slaves and are still being reduced.
We need to realize that the basis of everything good is God, and that we can’t win true freedom and happiness without teaching our children about Him.
This was covered pretty much long ago by God’s twelfth commandment: “Exodus 20:15: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.””
Well said
Commies always seize property. They are weaponizing “green energy” and “affordable housing” to take private land. Stay vigilant in your local communities: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/affordable-housing-green-energy-land-seizure
“Property is overrated — no big deal — so let us take yours”
If it’s no big deal, then why do they want to take it?
People defending their property are not the ones introducing violence. Once violence is on the table, it’s on the table for everyone involved.
That last sentence should be on billboards in every major city , and perhaps even over the doorway of every home.
Exactly.
Why?
Because there's another way to building wealth; a much easier way; by seizing the assets derived from the work of others.
Nah, the system which allows that will also allow the plunderer to be deprived of his goods. This is why drug dealers are always poor despite their captive customer basis.
So you're going on the record disagreeing with Frédéric Bastiat? Thats a tall order, but, Bold.
Maybe im misinterpreting what you're saying.
Bastiat may have been referring to legalized plunder, or rent seeking. I was referring to conditions where the state abandons its law enforcement duties and allows plunderers to succeed, but only until other crooks confiscate their loot.
Oh, like in the deep red cities of Californika!
Oh. I understand now
The big problem after that is maintenance. It's like many of these people think it is magic and not hard, skilled labor.
Unless you live in a country (like I do - Australia) which has already put in laws to protect the crims....
What has happened to Australia is so sad.
I lived in Sydney for over 18 years. Starting in ‘87. The way it was then is how I hope to remember it.
I felt betrayed when Howard made gun ownership so difficult, and suspected there was more than Port Arthur, as horrific as it was, behind the disarming of the citizens.
I hope the good people of Australia can wrestle their county back from the globalist ratbags.
Urm. Port Arthur. False Flag. No way Martin Bryant, IQ of 65, got 20-30 headshots in 3 minutes. If you talk to trained military, there may be a dozen operatives worldwide trained at that level. Friend-of-a-friend was invited to participate - apparently all Aussies refused, so they had to bring in foreign contractors. Word is, Yanks.
Give Martin Bryant a break! Poor kid, incarcerated, drugged to the gills. Without a trial. (because evidence in a trial could be problematic....)
I had not heard that, but I can believe it.
Recommended reading: CONTENT.MASS.MURDER
.pdf available on the web (or it was 10 years ago)
Lahaina was a perfect horrific example of that.
As was Western North Carolina, East Palestine OH and Los Angeles. Also the wildfire raging throughout Canada. Glyphosate, a desiccant, is being sprayed in Canadian forests for maximum damage.
I’ve been travelling in coastal BC for the past month. Please tell me more about the glyphosate-on-forest-fires thing. That got my attention!
. My reading was about the spraying in Nova Scotia, but it is done in all provinces.
A quick internet search will bring up the Canadian Forestry Service site that outlines the glyphosate practices.
Look for private resort development on that land…. and look to see who has skin in it….
This is where we will find the perps…
Right… keep big Blue tarps ready so you can cover your roof!
Looks like Los Angeles is as well. Now Newsom is condemning properties to make into low income housing near Malibu.
If it's Section 8 for migrants, Trump already nixed that with proof of citizenship requirements. Unless the Western States Pact defies it.
This is rampant in Australia at the moment. House prices and rents are out of control and we have a smirking moron of an energy minister trampling all over our arable farmland to install his “renewable energy” unicorns.
AND no talk of slowing immigration, which is not as bad as in the US, but still - more people than houses to put them in.
Illegal immigration (I call it what it is: invasion) has slowed considerably here in the US. I suspect the flood of emigration will pick up steam as non-citizens are having their meal tickets cancelled. No more public housing or state-paid medical “care” (such as it is). The southern border seems to have been sealed. The red carpet is being rolled up.
The northern border is still a worry since Canada now is almost a hostile country.
One of the most distressing books I ever read (and I was an adult when I read it) was "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH." Your home is about to be destroyed and you have a kid sick in bed with pneumonia and he can't move with the rest of you to your summer place.
One of my most persistent lifelong recurring [dream] nightmares is the door that can't be locked. It falls off its frame or its hinges; it just doesn't fit when you try to lock it, etc. etc. etc.--the frantic despair of not being able to secure your home is something I sure hope I never experience in real life. I look at those photo spreads of rich people's fancy floor-to ceiling glass-walled mansions and I wonder each time "what the all hell are they thinking?" Just at least give me a fighting chance when the wolves come crashing through.
Thank God I don't live in Canada. I ain't no skilled fighter and I'm not even safe to myself wielding a potato peeler sometimes, but I got this automatic reaction to being attacked (ask me about them muggings sometime) that's outsize to my actual capabilities and at least maybe if I'm lucky in the moment I can take an eye out or something and maybe that would be enough to make the bad guy think "that lady is nuts!" and force him into a retreat with the blood running down his face, or something.
Since Our Plague Era began I've said "thank God I'm an American" more times than in my whole entire life before, and one of the wonders of the world is that I ended up a Second Amendment absolutist too.
Isn't the potato(e) peeler already outlawed in Britain?
I ain't a Briton!
They have put in some pretty severe "public knife" laws in New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
Any day now …
These are the things that happen to those of us that just want to be left alone and we get infringed upon. We are stronger than we imagine and can do things we never wanted to do. I learned that I'm not as afraid of dying as I am of pain and I'm not as afraid of pain as I am of living as a coward.
With you all the way.
Mrs Frisby was as harrowing as any 'adult' novel. Another that made an impression on me was 'Z for Zachariah'- a book that taught that perhaps it was better to rely on yourself after the unthinkable because anyone who came around because you had built something might not have your best interest at heart...
Adding the latter book to my list.
As long as you have a list- there is another great (what would today be called "YA" ) novel from that era called "House of Stairs".
Having lived through the Covid years, that book scares me even more 40 years later.
Geez. Just reading the synopsis has given me vertigo. But on the list it goes...
Right now, I am sitting on a trove of old Sci Fi that I found in a thrift shop. Richard Matheson, Fritz Leiber, Leigh Brackett, Ellison, Kornbluth...I used to read a book every day or so. I've gotten quite flabby, digesting only a chapter or two once a week when I do laundry and treat myself at a local restaurant.
It is my goal to have backup pairs of glasses- I do not want to be Burgess Meredith, with all the time in the world to read after there is nothing left to do and be unable to do it because I didn't stash a bunch of reader lenses when I could...
PS: Imagine how thrilled I was to realize later that Matheson wrote so many of those "Twilight Zone" scripts...
My otherwise wretched father introduced me to sci fi by leaving the paperbacks he got from his brothers on his night table, and I read them as soon as he was out of the house for the night (he worked the night shift).
So I read plenty of '50s classics and then various life adventures left serious gaps in my collection. The old Barnes & Noble remainders bins helped fill some of those in.
But whenever someone recommends something to me that I hadn't heard of, I'll look at the publication date and go "Ah! I was...at the time..."
Having a kid was of course useful for filling in some of those gaps. Buying books for him was one of the most satisfying parts of motherhood
Hazardous potato peelers … yes, I can sympathise with that.
And every year your skin gets thinner, and thinner...
I know. The other day I cut my thumb opening a pistachio nutshell.
I try to undo a knot in yarn and my finger slips and then I have to stop working so I don't bleed all over my project. It's just amazing I made it all the way to the tarnishing years before I started fracturing bones. [Fortunately all that Vitamin C and cheddar cheese make me a fast healer.]
keep it up!!
I was very cheered but surprised at how well I bounced back. It's true that my right hand looks a little peculiarly attached now but it's fully functional again, thank God, and that's the part that matters.
So you are more fight than flight?
Considering that I ran after the guys with the gun I guess you'd have to say so.
Their windows are those that can withstand hurricane force winds, not regular glass windows.
They are windows used as walls. Give me windows used as windows and walls used as walls.
I love windows! Our downstairs is mostly 8’ windows. I have thought about home invasion, tho.
I love light and safety equally. I don't need to have a view from my shins upward.
Lol... bro has the ukraine flag in his bio... by his logic ukraine shouldn't have fought back and just let russia take it all... It's just laaaaand maaaannnn!!! no use dying over it!!! lmao...
why bring in logic and wreck the kookoo show? lol
Lol. That's the ultimate question.. this kookoo show is great btw... in an extremely absurdist way... an original dadaist would look back at now and be all "dude wtf is going on....? this is weird. How do I mock this??"
Any bit of my stuff that's in my house is worth more than the life of a person who would attempt to take it. Ask for it, and I'll probably give you what you ask for. Try to take it and you've declared war on me, and violence is the only correct response to violence.
I don’t view it as a matter of weighing the value of my property against the value of the criminal’s life. If someone breaks into my home, I can’t read their mind and know what their goal is, so I have to assume the worst, since, by the time I find out for sure, it’s going to be too late.
This! Glad I live in FL. Castle Doctrine state. My wife and I train with our firearms and keep them at the ready should the worst happen.
Precisely.
EXACTLY! You know what they say: : "When Seconds count, the police will be there in Minutes."
Completely agree. Anyone so unhinged as to break into my house puts me very much in reasonable fear of death or great physical harm. So I would easily shoot "to stop the threat."
Again, I can't emphasise this enough: give thanks that you live in a country where that is even possible.
I believe that every human life is sacred - to God. To other humans? Debatable! If someone wants to take chances that risk their lives, that's their personal responsibility.
I may be a little old lady - but I've trained all my life in martial arts. I would LOVE to surprise someone sometime....
“so you’d kill a robber to protect your things? your wallet is more important than his life?”
Didn’t the robber already make that calculation by trying to steal from me in the 1st place?
I was always taught that whenever you break into someone’s house, place of business or whatever that there is a very high probability that you will be killed. So I always need to do a risk/reward calculation before any action I decide to persue.
It’s the robber that has decided that my wallet is more valuable to him than his own life; not me. 🤷♂️
I’m not the one making that call, the robber is. I’m just enforcing the law..of consequences.
This is why I blame the parents. If your parents didn't teach you THAT, it's on them.
In a sane world, the man waltzing unannounced into someone's home with a knife in his hand forfeits all of his rights and essentially plays roulette with his life. Perpetrators need to understand that the potential for an imminent bullet through the head weighs heavily in their risk analysis.
That's simple and perfect.
He's waived his rights when he violates yours. Whatever happens is on him.
If the Canadians have decided it is not appropriate to defend yourself against home invasion how can they possibly be willing to help defend another country.
Abrogate NATO.
I don't call 911, I call 1911.
911 is for after, to pick up the remains.
Call 811 so you know where to dig a hole.
👍🤣🤣🤣🤣
John Browning looking down on you from Heaven, smiling. 👍
Love it! We need this in a meme!
More into revo’s myself
There is no one size fits all answer; wheelguns have their place, as do autos. S&W Model 10 is a fine multi-purpose gun. When I started in LE, standard issue was the S&W Model 66, but I didn't have any complaints when they switched over to the Beretta 96D. I don't pretend to be any kind of gun wizard, but I never had any issue with the Beretta, although there were those that hated it.
To each their own...
911 Is A Joke
Public Enemy (1990)
https://youtu.be/JZDIitWz8Go
This is the modern mindset: pampered, naive, full of confidence that every other group on Earth is just as trusting and orderly and (outwardly) NICE as the folks in your graduate SOC seminar. It's a denial of history and cultural variation and incentives.
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/the-ignoble-savage
This mindset is so pervasive in the West for two reasons: it flatters the psychological identities of the believers (and gains them status), and it is extremely useful for the expansion of the bureaucratic regime.
Of course it's based on obviously false assumptions and demands that the individual repudiate millennia of human wisdom and civilizational labor. All of that discarded simply so weakling can virtue signal online and feel good about themselves as they go about their protected and artificial lives.
"your wallet is more important than his life?"
Well the robber certainly seemed to think so. Even if I'm not armed, he doesn't know that I'm not a former SEAL or Green Beret capable of killing him with my bare hands; he was willing to risk his life for my wallet, why wouldn't I also be willing to risk his life for my wallet?
Another example of the feminization of the west - someone's feelings might be hurt.
A robber loses has implicitly waived his rights when he violates your homestead.
And Canada's penchant for releasing hardened criminals back into society with no/little bail exacerbates the situation.
Canada is a failed state. Thanks to WEF-er Turdeau and his handlers.
❤️ Go Wexit! ❤️
For sure. If Wexit succeeds, I'm moving to Alberta.
Apparently the law prevents Carney from stopping them militarily. I think their stumbling block may be the currency issue. We’ll see what they do. 🙏
Personally, I'd love for my favorite RV supply place to be in the US. I'd take a road trip just to check it out.
Where do you go nowadays?
I have had great service from the staff at 'Young Farts RV Parts'. IIRC they are in Alberta and are owned by a couple of relatively young brothers who recycle RVs.
They have had a consistently great selection: thanks to them, I was able to replace the face/surface control panel of an air conditioner long out of production. I have bought a bunch of other stuff since and they have decent shipping costs even to the US.
I once spent an informative half hour talking to one of their phone staff about RV stuff, nice people, good service, decently priced parts and I get to support a bunch of local rural folk making a living somewhere.
I am trying to accept that the Canadian official telling people to leave their keys where thieves can easily access them is not an AI fake. I know it isn't fake, but as real "advice," that's next level insane.
Will his next advice be to sleep downstairs and not resist when they rape you (before they take your car), because they don't want to kill you and your kids upstairs will be left alone?
It’s not beyond the realms of possibility.
I tell my American friends this all the time and they have a hard time understanding it.
But then so do I.
It’s all so depressing 😥
Yup. Same deal here in Oz.
Canadian police have long crossed the useless-to-outright-dangerous Rubicon. It's at the point where many people in Canada would consider their communities *safer*, without *any* police than the uniformed slop epitomized by that imbecile in the clip.
In rural Canada especially you hear whispers of "town justice" solving problems more effectively than some incompetent copper worried more about completing their DEI modules than actually keeping communities safe. And it gets worse the further up you go, as legal indoctrination now actively discriminates against anyone daring to challenge the state's monopoly on violence in terms of self-defence, especially against "racialized" suspects who are now at the top of the status table in our multi-tiered, "post-colonial" disgrace of a legal system.
Oh, Canada. WTF?
It's bad up here, like *really* bad. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Canada should have voted for Poulivere (sp?)
Hell, Canada should have voted for Trump.
For sure!