Deafening Silence
There are no words you can say that they can't twist. There is no action you can take that they won't fault. Even your silence is deaf ening.
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A Weird Dream I Had
Years ago — like, back when the show was on — I had a dream that was basically a Star Trek: TNG b-storyline. A bunch of the crew have to attend some diplomatic function on Klingon. So obviously Worf is along. Data is there to explain shit. A couple others. And key to the story, Riker. They get there during some weird Klingon festival (but I repeat myself). They've got this feast where they bring out all the most nasty, vile Klingon dishes as a show of gustatory toughness. It's great fun. Now, this stuff is supposed to be rough for Klingons. So you can bet the Enterprise crew is turning green at all this nastiness. Even Data has some technobabble about how his nutrient processing system wasn't designed for this shit. Then the Klingon top chef brings out the pièce de résistance. The Klingons are positively yakking at this garbage. Some won't even touch it. The plate goes around and passes in front of the Enterprise crew, to much anguished groaning. Riker has been holding...
Don't be That Guy
source: https://www.voterstudygroup.org/publication/political-divisions-in-2016-and-beyond companion piece: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-democrats-have-shifted-left-over-the-last-30-years/ see also: https://toddofmischief.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-meandering-discussion-on-political.html and: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/interactives/political-polarization-1994-2017/
Nothing to do with Skin Color
USA Today confirms something I've been saying on Twitter and this blog for awhile now: "whiteness" (and by extension, it's counterpart "blackness") has nothing to do with skin color. In the past, I have hedged that observation by saying "almost nothing to do" but that seems unnecessary going forward. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/12/29/fact-check-warnock-sermon-whiteness-condemns-racism/4008303001/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201229212656if_/https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/12/29/fact-check-warnock-sermon-whiteness-condemns-racism/4008303001/ https://archive.is/OIzqx
Leftist Headspace: The Beginning
Scott Adams (the Dilbert guy) tweeted out this morning: Once you see that Democrats can't tell the difference between sarcasm and thinking, you can't unsee it. https://t.co/bMKz2z4kQg — Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) December 2, 2020 Which got me trolling through the Twitter archives to look for the first time I recognized that the Left Can't Discern . Here is a good candidate. The account I was debating is now suspended, but enough context remains for me to recall that they were posting political cartoons suggesting they were evidence of... something. I love how the Left can't tell the difference between a cartoon and a photograph. — Todd of Mischief (@AndToddsaid) April 2, 2018 But that's more of an early inkling. I found also the moment I first put into words "The left can’t make distinctions." Reproduced below (from Aug 12, 2019 ): ▽ ▽ ▽ @brainfertilizer I’ve been having trouble reconciling the hype-individualist aspects of leftism with th...
A brief appreciation of MAGA as a slogan
@badjin_rank tweets , People in general are much more likely to be influenced by a slogan than facts. It is the entire basis of modern advertising techniques. I agree thusly: "Make America Great Again" had great assonance and rhythm. You've got a double-M sound and a double-G sound with the second instance of each tucked behind a nice open A vowel. It just rolls out of the mouth and into the ear nicely. The convenient acronym was likely a happy bonus. It's easy to see why MAGA has so many copycats. Unfortunately, Keep America Great, like many sequels, fails to appreciate, let alone capture, what made the original so magical. All the tonal and rhythmic energy is lost and KAG is an unfortunate acronym. Against KAG, the very blunt, plosive alliteration of "Build Back Better" (which seems like an overt nod to the Better Business Bureau) seems almost poetic in comparison. It's not poetic. "Buh buh buh" is, at best, a baby sound, at worst, a mocking...