Prologue, Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
FSA Origins Project
from the Diary of “El Unico”
Vol. 1, Recovered 2037.05.23
pp. 298-301
Dear God,
Ah, shit. That even looks funny on the paper. Hector asked me to do this and we argued about the absolute pointlessness of me writing a letter to God.
“Why do I have to write a letter to him if he’s all-knowing?” I asked. “He fucking already knows what’s in my head and heart.”
Hector laughed, but insisted. He made it a non-negotiable condition of the deal, so… fine. Kendrick in return for some writing. He kept up his end of the bargain.
When we started I felt like Mephistopheles to his Faust, but now I’m not so sure who’s who in that analogy.
I’d laid it all out to him, the only person I’d shared the whole vision with, and he’d sat quietly, passed the 4Loco over, and puffed on a cig. It wasn’t just that we’d spent all of that time in Afghanistan and the FATA together, the Brother and the Beaner, the Spic and the Spook, a joke even to ourselves; it was that I didn’t know anyone else with the talents to pull it off. I don’t mean just the comms and computer knowledge, or even the physical wherewithal: I needed someone who could and would kill with impunity for the right cause, who understood what the vengeance drive takes to be fed and nurtured.
He knew. Oh, he fucking knew.
We’d met in Kabul, passing through the old “Embassy Annex,” as they called it in those days. It was a hotel that the Agency, some ODA and Team guys had taken from the Taliban in the early part of the war. I was a commo on loan to one of the outlying bases, up in the mountains in a place called Orgun-E. We met playing poker at the hotel bar. That place was like the fucking Mos Eisley Space Cantina in the early days. You could drink, but guns had to go in a rack outside the bar. They set poker tables up outside the entrance and people played to win money that they couldn’t even spend where they were going. It was just another way to get a rush – as if getting shot at while flying in the back of a blacked-out helicopter at night on NVGs wasn’t enough.
He was tall and rangy for a Mexican – at least the Mexicans I knew growing up in the projects. He wasn’t dumpy or scraggly. Olive-skinned, better than six feet, and carried himself with an air of…royalty. Like he expected to be listened to. We played cards together and I was immediately wary of him. Saved me some money, too. I folded the winning hand – at least on the board – and they all ridiculed me, but he had the nuts. I know he did. Impossible that he would have stayed to draw a straight flush? Maybe. He’s never told me if he had it, either, after all of that time together… and I kinda like that about him, too.
We got to work together later, when we needed some NSA expertise out our neck of the woods. He’d stepped off the helicopter and even at night I could tell by the posture of his silhouette who it was. He’d taught me about nurturing a grudge, about keeping the embers of vengeance stoked – he’d had family in one of the Towers and murder in his heart. He was ruthless to his enemies, but controlled in everything else.
We kept in touch after our respective time in the Graveyard of Empires. He stayed on at NSA or Orange or whatever the fuck he kept doing; I left it all behind. After Kendrick had my daughter and her family murdered, I reached out to Hector.
And then the bargain was struck. He’d support me for Kendrick, but he wanted the whole system broken. The fuck do I care about that system after Candace’s death, my grandchildren…?
True Confession #1: I don’t feel guilty about the killing. After Kendrick, I slept like a baby. Not a single dream. The deeper Truth I can barely admit to myself now is how good it had felt to inflict pain on him. Time had been tight, so I didn’t get to luxuriate in it, but, ohhhh, the look on his face when I’d told him who I really was… and pulled that hammer out of the box. That made it all worth it.
Yes, yes, cry, you fucking baby, meet your Maker. I am Revenge and I have come to extract payment. Beg me for your life.
Who’s your ‘boy’ now, huh, Harm?
I ran all of the philosophical implications to their rabbit holes and I can only conclude that you – yes, You, Almighty God – sanctioned all of this. You couldn’t possibly take my daughter from me like that and not know what would follow. How could I ever suspect that the anonymous hacker who gave us the AI and ML that we needed was my own daughter?
I’d always felt that the Greeks had captured some of the futility of the human condition in Oedipus, before Freud fucking ruined it, that is. Oedipus is abandoned at birth to die, does everything right to try to avoid a prophecy that he would kill his father, and in so doing bumps right into his old man on the road and kills him. But the modern interpretation is that it was his fatal flaw that caused what happened to him – modern intellectuals simply can’t stand the notion that we’re not in control of or responsible for what we do, that we might merely be players on the stage, acting out our bit part in the tragicomedy.
Hector understood. He’d become embittered (again); the second time was even worse. Who wouldn’t after what he endured to see the whole thing turned into just another excuse to take our freedom? The tools we’d used in Afghanistan to catch terrorists being turned on our own citizens – on us. Instead of going Snowden, Hector had bided his time… and then I’d turned up, like Oedipus on the road to Thebes.
So… who used who again? Was it Hector using me? Was it me using Hector? Or was it simply Fate forcing us together yet again to carry out some larger purpose of which we aren’t even dimly aware?
The Revolution may have been an afterthought for me, but it was a cause – for Freedom! Liberty! Whatever-the Fuck! – for others. I needed it to get Kendrick and yes, my pain was great enough to be indifferent to the destruction of my country. A bit like Antigone, I suppose.
Fuck it. It was gone, anyway. A disgusting, leprous behemoth of corporate-fascist pus, like the Kraken washed ashore, sick and engorged, but still able to drag itself inland, feeding on the innocent as it went. A bureaucracy of withered Creons, moral scolds with no morality.
What still strikes me, even now, was Kendrick’s shock when I explained the bug I put on his tie. He was more concerned that I had heard all of his casual racism than he was about the lives of my family. It was as if ordering a young woman and her family be killed was just politics, business-as-usual, but the idea that I might see right through his Progressive bullshit to the root of his racism was too much for him. I suppose in that sense he clung to his Progressive Gods right to the end.
I look at the whole thing now and it seems like You, Lord – Your Hand, the very Lathe of Heaven – guiding it all along. Everything I did, everything I learned, every moment of suffering, of persevering while I crawled in the mud, of forging my will…all to put me right where I needed to be. A modern Negro Oedipus, doomed by my Nature to wield that hammer, to bring it all to fruition, to be the final straw on the lumbering dromedary’s back that had been the Promised Land of the White Man… or maybe ushered in the new one? Thy will be done.
Fuck, I don’t know. It’s Hector’s now. El Unico. We called him that in Afghanistan as a joke after he’d come back from a cross-border mission gone bad. Everyone who knew him by that name is dead, so we resurrected it. That was my price – he had to take the name and the lead. I did it all just to see that look on Harmon Kendrick’s face before I pulled him up that lamppost, still alive, gibbering and begging, bleeding and dying.
Yes, O Lord, I have not love; and I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds.
Dark, very dark,
If we do get to the point of armed insurrection, there are tens of thousands of people in this country who are trained in
counter-insurgency. And a lot of them have already been consigned to the the underclass by Our Masters.RC – I believe there are/can be/might be? stages of insurrection. It doesn’t have to go from full stop to 100%. For example, how would you characterize what we say in many cities in response to Derek Chauvin/George Floyd? Was that armed insurrection? Was it merely brownshirt ops testing?
I think there are a million ways in which dirt can be put into the gears and – I don’t think most people appreciate – that highly developed and refined tech, as great as its benefits are – is also ALWAYS more prone to failure from “dirt in the gears.” Hard to operate fancy surveillance tech without power (for example).
Harder to mobilize people who are hungry, too.
e.g. Facebook disruption
While that was probably accidental rather than intentional or malicious, it’s an indicator that there are some serious vulnerability points. An enterprising shit-stirrer might find ways to disrupt social media well enough that they start begging the government to be given special protections (e.g. declared to be “critical infrastructure”). Get the system to overextend itself.
Sabotage, Sabot, Clog in the gears,
I’m reminded of the French Resistance, supported by the Brits, as described in the book “Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” They set out with the purpose of putting sand in the Nazi’s gears at every. fucking. turn. In ways that sometimes couldn’t even be attributed to anything other than bad luck. Industrial sabotage on a scale that we can’t even begin to imagine. Special compounds that look like axel grease that do the exact opposite – seizes railway axels and tank treads. Crazy inventive. It’s where Bletchley Park came from. The characters behind it are just so quintessentially British – but WW2 British.. so not too far from American. (I use my grandmother as the unit of measure for this. She survived Hitler’s bombing of London, but emigrated to the US shortly thereafter. My mom was born in America by March of ’47).
There’s a pretty solid record of slaves doing the same thing: “accidentally” breaking tools, burning down barns, etc. Since most slave-owners assumed slaves were dumb, the slaves played into that stereotype.
Thank you again for recommending that book. It was an absolute delight. I’m getting a hardback copy for my pop for Christmas.
*Cap tip*
Here is an article about the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. I particalarly like the part dealing with General Interference with Organizations and Production. I’m convinced some of the people at where I work are Chinese Agents.
https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/military/simple-sabotage-manual/
To anyone watching this is in no way advocating that these methods be used against any lawful government such as we have here in the US.
One of my favorite stories of that time was a saboteur who had been instructed to sabotage a factory in German occupied France that made some component critical to German armament production. The guy got a job as a janitor in the factory, but after a couple of weeks was stumped. On a hunch, he marched into the factory-owner’s office and asked for a minute of his time in private. When that was granted he explained to the owner that he was from the French Resistance and he had been assigned the job of sabotaging the factory. He then told the owner that he knew the owner was a patriotic Frenchman and that he didn’t want to cause a significant financial loss by destroying equipment but merely to stop it from producing the components the Germans were demanding. He then asked if the owner would help him with this project. The hunch proved right; the owner jumped up and shook his hands and said he would be glad to.
In the end, the owner identified one machine that was manufactured in Germany that was critical to the process and helped the janitor contaminate the system that oiled its bearing. Two weeks later the machine seized up. The Germans investigated, discovered the contamination and decided the sabotage had occurred outside the factory. The factory was allowed to keep running producing other industrial goods. That production line was down for six months while they waited for a replacement from Germany, and the owner ensured that they never returned to anywhere near full production.
I believe that one might be in the book. But there are so, so so many more – and imagine the ones that never made it into print. Imagine the “silent insolence” (one of my favorite old-timey military offenses) that existed in the hearts of frenchman everyone. I wonder if the Germans ever ordered “the cream sauce.”
All neat stories for French grandpas to tell the grandkids. But the fact remains that they would all be speaking German today if not for some millions of American young men (and a few ladies too) who traded a few years (or all) of their lives so some snotty waiter in Paris could look down on the rubes from the States.
“Well, thank you, Mr. Manfred-St. John-sen, for popping in and protecting us!” ? ?
Nah, They would have all been speaking Russian.
WWII alt-history. Always fun.
Without Allied material support, and the need for the Germans to keep major, major military assets in Western Europe, I think the Soviets would have lost.
Heh, probably, Herr Doktor.
Funny. No doubt – just like in the US, there are a lot of people who totally would have punched the Nazis in the mouth, ‘cept for…
Just like there were all those New Yorkers at Shea when the Mets won in ’69.
How amazing that the British saw the threat as so great that they intervened to help the French.
The OSS had the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. From a summary on the CIA site:
The government is doing its best on the last one.
Is that sabotage or union work rules?
Yes.
There are more union-like suggestions in there. There is also restroom sabotage in the manual. Clog the toilets. Remove the toilet paper. Give them brown pants to match their shirts.
And there are others in that category who would flock to the radical left or the government.
Question: if this is from the Diary of El Unico, and El Unico is Hector, then why isn’t it written from Hector’s perspective?
Artistic license.
Don’t you diary about yourself in the third person?
Dude, no reading ahead.
Dread Pirate Roberts?
Seriously RC – this question gets answered… or, actually, perhaps better to say, suggested.
El Único is an idea not an organization.
A round of applause please.
Or, this is just misdirection.
Tyler: You were looking for a way to change your life. You could not do this on your own. All the ways you wish you could be, that’s me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.
Narrator: Oh, no.
(Narrator: Tyler’s not here, Tyler went away, Tyler’s gone.
Marla: What?)
Narrator: This is impossible.
Tyler: No.
Narrator: This is crazy.
Tyler: People do it every day. They talk to themselves. They see themselves as they’d like to be. They don’t have the courage you have to just run with it. Naturally, you’re still wrestling with it, so sometimes you’re still you.
(Narrator: We should do this again sometime.)
Tyler: Other times, you imagine yourself watching me.
(Narrator: If this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.)
Tyler: Little by little, you’re just letting yourself become… Tyler Durden.
I forgot how fucking good that was. Thank you for the reminder.
He was tall and rangy for a Mexican
What a story!
Just keeps picking up speed. (It was nice to be right about Jefferts, too)
Thanks, Ozy! These are a treat!
OT, but pretty interesting to me. I just finished watching a documentary about movie poster art. Yes, movie poster art. Anyway, it gets into market economics and IP as well as going into the history and artistry. It’s free with ads on youtube (I didn’t see any ads, +1 Brave).
24×36: A Movie About Movie Posters
When we started I felt like Mephistopheles to his Faust, but now I’m not so sure who’s who in that analogy.
Absolutely wonderful.
Mephistopheles is a human cat-but, that’s where reality has taken us.
Mephaskapheles on the other hand…
I wonder how that job listing read…
Well we know where all of those edits ended up, in the hands of TPTB.
Shit. This is getting too real.
Here, have some more,
https://brownstone.org/articles/bidens-vaccination-mandate-where-are-the-regulations/
Good website, Thanks Ozy!
Jeffery Tucker is behind that site. He’s been excellent on lockdowns.
Interesting. It looks like Liberty.me (which Tucker also founded) has gone inactive.
BRAVO! This just keeps getting better and better!
Holy crap, Ozy! That was some of the best damned storytelling I’ve read in a long while. And kudos on the use of mythology. I think it can make a story richer, if it’s done well. And you used it very well.
Yeah, he really hit full stride in this chapter.
Oh, and I would like to at least get a little love for working in “Lathe of Heaven.” Who was it who suggested that name way back when? I apologize that I didn’t keep track of who said it, but I just loved it so much I had to do some “fan service” right there. It’s a beautiful phrase and it seemed a… shame not to find a home for it.
Good book – I did a micro review a few months back.
Nothing like the classics.
Ursula K. LeGuin?
Okay – that ties it back together. Now I remember that convo and what it was about.
Thanks, rhywun.
Thanks, Ozy! Vicarious vengeance is better than none, I suppose. I must say, I’m having some trouble with the cultural references. Lets see… Greek mythology? Check. Teutonic legend? Check. Hindu scripture? Check. Star Wars? Check. What’d I miss?
No love for the “cultural Melting Pot,” GP? I gotta make it all Irish maudlin of Joyce?
(I keed. I’m glad you’re picking it up. If you’re noticing it, it means I’m not the only one who’s got hodge-podge of literary sensibilities).
“cultural Melting Pot”. Here in WokeEmployerLand, I just got a Slack message from our DiversityInAction team informing me of the various goodthinkful events we are having during October, which is Italian Heritage Month. Of course, we will be celebrating “Indigenous Peoples Day” on Monday. *headdesk*
I gotta run off to do some work, but I’ll pop back in a little bit.
“Final” Dune trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0HgHet0sxg
*sets alarm for Oct 22*
That has potential.
Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista are turning to Ben Affleck and Matt Damon with those two always showing up in the same movies and TV shows.
Except one of them can actually act.
And one of them isn’t always crying.
If you couldn’t guess which one.
Doesn’t look or sound like either one of them.
Now THAT’S acting!
You should be horsewhipped for making that comparison.
Looks great.
I like the Classical references. I wonder who the Achilles will be? How are you going to top what Hector is?
https://policetribune.com/home-intruder-found-mauled-to-death-by-homeowners-dogs/
Guy chose poorly.
How was he supposed to know the dogs hadn’t been fed for days? Surprised the owner hasn’t been arrested.
They’d have to figure out who Robin Masters is first.
He’s the guy with the cool wine cellar, right?
A friend of mine’s dog was given a police commendation for taking down a suspect that had fled into my friend’s back yard. The dog was a Belgian Malinois named Angel.
Good doggies.
Once the switch flips on pits, its game over. The big ones, especially (American Staffordshire Terriers) are incredibly strong. And with two – oof.
Thanks, OZY, one day soon I’ll read it non-stop.
Enjoy the weekly episodes, I’m back in Mpls as a kid watching the serials every Saturday, to see how Lash LaRue will get himself out of this new jam.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=leola+theater+minneapolis&atb=v198-1&iax=images&ia=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fphotos.cinematreasures.org%2Fproduction%2Fphotos%2F5308%2F1308427035%2Flarge.jpg%3F1308427035
Good stuff again, Ozy. Inspiring, even.
I wonder if we are on a bunch of small lists, or just on the Big List?
Rand Paul said “be scared of your government” and made no bones about that they have the lists…many of them.
Source? Not that I don’t believe you.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/10/07/rand-pauls-warning-to-americans-be-afraid-of-your-government-n1522371
and
Not to be all hyperbolic, but the school boards are the next big battle in the culture wars. Where I live, the school board elections are usually quiet affairs, but this past one was heated mostly due to COVID. A lot of parents firsthand saw how and what their children were being taught on top of witnessing their children having to deal with not being on campus and falling behind. A group of parents got super pissed and decided to run for the school board. The teacher union I believe for the first time ever in my village, endorsed and funded their opposition campaigns.
The Democrats are poking the bear because people can take being shat on, but when you fuck with their children, people tend to take that shit personally.
Where I live in the increasingly blue Phila. collar county, the only incumbent to lose in the primary for School Board was the one who was most conservative. The Karens and Scotts are more reliable to show up and vote than the hardworking parents who deplore all the nonsense.
Where I live, it’s an odd mix of Democrats and Republicans which helps keep the excesses of both sides to a minimum.
“These were threats against public servants, threats against members of the school board. Regardless of the reasoning, threats & violence against public servants is illegal” -Lo Carb Strawberry Beer
Remember, threats against its own citizens is okay, when you dare stand in the way of ‘public servants’ you are a terrorist. El Unico might be a time traveler.
School board elections here are in May, which means the teachers’ unions generally get the handpicked candidates they want.
Rand!
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/washington-secrets/bipartisan-forces-join-to-stop-testing-on-100-million-animals-a-year
Any Glib acquaintances in the Covington area? That must be pleasant to live in, at least for now (governor excepted).
They’re stopping covid vaccine mandates?
Breathalyzers in bars…
How many lists can you get on!!
I read that,
Yes.
Posted this morning with no responses. Trying again this afternoon before I go in to the office (and read w/out logging in).
Thanks
“Hector understood. He’d become embittered (again); the second time was even worse. Who wouldn’t after what he endured to see the whole thing turned into just another excuse to take our freedom? ”
This seems a little too real.
. . . Your Hand, the very Lathe of Heaven . . .
Ah, sweet release at last.
There you go.
You changed handles too many times. Thank you.
I hope you think I gave it a good home.
I’ll respond properly in a short while. I’m still too busy finishing my cigarette.
rhywun upthread reminded me of what that old thread was about – and it involved U. Leguin, the title to a book of hers.
ISTR you mentioning it would make a good metal band name, as well.
Anyway, it was too good not to use.
One of the ways I’ve interpreted LeGuin’s book over the years is as a meditation on how humans want to alter reality to fit their artificial views of what it should be, but The Lathe of Heaven always resists that attempt, sometimes in ways violent, other times in ways that shield from violence. In the end, reality always comes from The Lathe of Heaven, not from our own machinations, as ingenious as they sometimes might be.
It’s a surprisingly deep book.
She was big on Taoism. I took the book as a sort of manifesto. Well, much later. I first read it as a little kid.
OT –
In Unix, to get a quick summary of the disk usage of the contents of my current directory, all I need to do is issue one command:
Trying to do the same in windows, I finally got the command:
Why, Microsoft? I mean, it’s not like wanting to know the breakdown of disk usage in a directory is such a strange thing.
Hmm, I wonder if du would work properly in cygwin…
*shrug*
It works. I often use cygwin to run find, grep, du, and other simple Unix commands on my Windows filesystems.
Yup. Was away from my workstation before. A bit slow, but does the job.
Even shorter in Unix is “ls -l”, which gives disk usage plus other info like date and protections (the “-l” means long form of “ls”).
Don’t need or want the other columns.
Just name and size.
And the -h flag for du gives me the size abgbreviated to the easy to understand prefix (T, G, M, K) so I don’t have to count blocks.
ls -l gives you file sizes and directory usage, not disk usage.
unless that is what unciv is looking for. I figured he wanted an overview of the disk as a whole.
My Steam Directory is 720 GB. I wanted to see which games are surprisingly large and can be uninstalled to free some space. I need the disk usage.
I know you are a command prompt type of guy but TreeSize Free is a great GUI for that
Is that built-in to windows? Sounds like a 3rd party workaround.
Ultimately the whole purpose of the comment was kvetching. I already got the issue resolved.
“TreeSize Free”
I have found that guys who boast on the internet about their free huge wangers don’t actually measure up and in reality, they came up short.
Nah, 3rd party. Windows is terrible at disk management tools.
It is strange, for Windows users. It’s probably even harder on an iPad, and harder still yet on an electric kettle.
I don’t have to do disk maintenence on an electric kettle.
It’s nice to see more people relying on the non-aggression principle in their decision making.
One the few good things left about FB is being in groups that talk about obscure hobbies. I have been following a group discussion on historical gardening (cause I have an orchard full of heirloom apples).
Today, the administrator changed the name of the group to expand the area of interest to include modern gardening and said she would start posting articles on agricultural inequity, racism, and some other horseshit about food dependency.
There is literally no topic the woke cannot fuck up.
What do they want, a time machine?
No, they want to push out discussions on medieval peasant gardening in the forest and focus on why modern commercial agriculture (imposed by white people) is a crime against Gaia — who knows. I left the group as soon as I read the post from the administrator.
Whenever I delve into the world of medieval agriculture, I’m trying to get a sanity check on how many people are going to be fed off of a given area, how much (if any) surplus there is, and what the taxes are likely to add up to.
A frustrating number of those variables are “It depends”.
My hobby is historical booze. So agriculture and horticulture are adjacent interests.
Not apiculture?
No. But I have many friends that keep bees and who have interests in historical beekeeping.
Interestingly enough, commercial beekeeping got started relatively recently (1860’s). The guy who did a healthy amount of the early heavy lifting did it just down the road from me, and the company he founded is still family owned and operational today (although they primarily do candles today).
Me too. As in, not long after I get my hands on it, it’s history.
Er, was speaking of SJWs generally.
“Crop rotation in the 14C was considerably more widespread after John.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOmiJ3Tf9Cs Sorry, I always post this…
Wait just one Cotton Pickin moment…
Apples are the genesis of the patriarchy and the origin of gender inequality.
Am I doing it right?
Sounds damned right. Care to go into grant writing?
And because apples are the genesis of the patriarchy we’re on the eve of destruction.
Interesting, I was wanting to plant a couple of trees myself. What’s a decent warm climate variety that doesn’t taste like ass or is there any such thing?
https://www.cumminsnursery.com/
What zone are you in?
Start here. Pick a zone.
https://www.cumminsnursery.com/buy-trees/index.php?type=tree&view=card&year=2022
Looks like 8a and thanks for the link.
Trust the Cummins Nursery to give you good recommendations.
One of the biggest concerns will be “cold soak days”. The tree needs to experience a minimum number of “cold” days to know that spring has come and it should produce blossoms. Too far south, the tree may thrive but never produce apples.
Time to start your own group.
“There is literally no topic the woke cannot fuck up.”
No kidding, why can’t they just start a new group?
It looks like I need refresh every minute to not step on other comments 🙂
OT: https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/national-black-justice-coalition-urge-netflix-pull-dave-chappelle-the-closer-special-over-homophobia-transphobia
“It is deeply disappointing that Netflix allowed Dave Chappelle’s lazy and hostile transphobia and homophobia to air on its platform,” NBJC executive director David Johns said in a statement to Deadline. “With 2021 on track to be the deadliest year on record for transgender people in the United States — the majority of whom are Black transgender people — Netflix should know better. Perpetuating transphobia perpetuates violence. Netflix should immediately pull The Closer from its platform and directly apologize to the transgender community.”
One of the greatest things about having fuck you money is that you can disregard these assholes. This bullshit ass idea that you can’t say remotely mean anything about the trans community unless you’re praising them and denying biology needs to die a quick death. I have no issue with people transitioning nor think they should be harassed or discriminated by the government but I’m not going to deny basic biology or walk on eggshells for them.
I don’t have fuck you money, I meant JK Rowling and Dave Chappelle has fuck you money.
or walk on eggshells for them
I like that. People putting their pronouns in their email sigs is still quite rare at my company. If it every becomes an “expectation”, I’m thinking:
Pronouns: Your call. I’m not the boss of you.
I’d work in walking on eggshells, but I’m trying to keep it as short as possible.
A handful have started doing that crap, and it makes me immediately disregard their opinion on everything.
If it is ever mandated at work, I’m going with the low-key, non-conformist “it”.
I told my wife that if we’re mandated to put pronouns I’m doing autobot/autobots.
Wingdings.
Actually, no. In order to make it easier for my coworkers to pronounce and remember it’ll just be Not Adahn/Not Adan/Not Adahn.
Your Majesty/Imperator Caesar Divi filius Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, Consul XIII, Imperator XXI, Tribuniciae potestatis XXXVII, Pater patriae.
Dieu et ton droit 😉
Oh, and that is for 1st, 2nd and 3rd person.
Show your source, please.
Meant to be a reply to Ed. Oops.
From 2019:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/8/transgender-homicide-rate-remarkably-low-despite-h/
Looks like they push this story every year.
A few years back I was in conversation with a friend who has some proggie leanings on social issues, including this one. He was bemoaning the fact that X number of “trans” people had committed suicide the year before.
“What’s the denominator?” I asked.
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“You gave me a numerator. Now I want the denominator. That way I can compare it to the suicide rate in the general population and see if it’s lower, higher, or the same. You can’t draw any meaningful conclusion without that.”
I’m not sure he was convinced, but he conceded the point.
If you dare ask them to show you the numbers and defend their assertions, then you’re a fucking transphobe. That’s their get out of jail free card though. If you force them to defend their bullshit, they hurl ad honinems at you.
The assertion is the source.
Jesus, don’t you even woke?
No. I don’t woke. I have active brain cells.
OFFS. No one ever points out who these transgendered LGBTQRX people of color are being victimized by.
I am going to make a thin crust pizza. No, I am not putting pineapple on it. I am putting tomato slices and banana pepper on it.
Meat. You should be putting meat on it.
peperoni and Italian sausage.
🙂
“OFFS. No one ever points out…”
Anything at all. They just lie and never even try to back it up at all.
They trash talked Trump for 4 years and I never heard even one of them ever give one example of why Trump was so bad. Never.even.once.
This.
No matter how much I challenged them and asked why all I got was a bunch of foaming at the mouth and gibberish.
Even today you can’t get a straight answer.
Loogit these two Trumpaloes!
“Orange Man Bad; It is Known.”
It’s like you guys don’t even know how to cult, bruh.
Look man, we totally SCIENCE!
I think was that Ngo guy who pointed out that it’s usually drug deals or hook-ups gone wrong. Or domestic violence.
Lamentable, of course, but the reality is nobody is out there targeting them.
I enjoy relative good news. To some it’s inconvenient.
What percentage of black people agree with the NBJC on this issue I wonder. It’s gotta be five tops.
Not many. These sorts are the overly credential who wouldn’t step foot in the hood but sue black issues as a means as a way to control people.
I thought there were only four tops. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KUOntQocGWk
Go West Young Commies
Yes, please, get on the 405 and keep going until you fall into the ocean and never come back.
Kinda curious here…where on the 405 would they fall in the ocean?
I don’t care, as long as they fall in and never come back.
But if there were a hugenormous scale 11 earthquake near Long Beach, couldn’t they potentially slide into the ocean? There must be some sort of hope.
Not everyone in CA — even SF or LA — is a lefty. “Shoot em all and let God sort em out”?
“Not everyone in CA — even SF or LA”
How much does CNN pay you to write this stuff?
?
OK, I am guessing about LA and especially SF. I just receive occasional anonymous SOSes from there, bearing upside-down stamps.
(NB: I don’t; I merely extrapolate from internet comments.)
She’s right Dude, it’s those who can, bail out….
Somebody commented recently in connection with the nonagenarian Nazi that evil regimes only survive on sufferance of their population, so punishing the population is justifiable.
evil regimes only survive on sufferance of their population
Pol Pot shows that the population’s sufferance does not necessarily impact the existence of an evil regime, and Hirohito shows that the evil regime can be ended even when the people would willingly suffer more.
O’Grady is technically right however. Take deep blue shitholes like Maryland for example. I am here and actually did the research and collected all the data. There are 23 confirmed fake conservotards here, and 2 libertarians in the entire state.
So God watched on his GodOscope and tried to determine if there was even one righteous in Sodom so that he should spare the place for their sake. And the 2 righteous spoke up and said ‘Oh Fuck no, nuke this shithole now, Oh Lord’.
I think only one in nine Californians is a southpaw.
The LA River also works.
Which 405?
OBE, I went to an event in DTLA (theatre district) a few years ago and have never observed such Taxi Driver anomie in my life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0suQJKV13A
The entire concept of moving in order to change the political makeup of the destination area is incredibly narcissistic in the first place.
The self-esteem movement has created a generation of self-absorbed assholes with oversized capacities for imagining themselves as humble and empathetic.
The Free State Project haz a sad.
I suppose.
These idiots are headed to places that don’t want them simply in order to spite the people that already live there, not in order to create something new.
20k have pledged to move…some day.
The Free State Project would like to have a word…
Damn, late again by a hair.
But in before the hat…*glances at DEGs avatar* it works!
err..and behind the…not in before the…know what? Im taking my ball and going home.
https://www.ksla.com/2021/10/07/covington-police-say-student-assaulted-teacher-tik-tok-challenge/
What’s up with the grainy video?
All part of the normal process.
Grainy video is probably the news putting it through a filter to “protect” the “child”
Child? The child of a 3 ton gorilla? Queen Kong?
Some sort of thuggish beatdown by a lowland Gorilla monster, filmed with a 1995 flip phone? The same phone used for all the UFO and Bigfoot sighting video ever in all of recorded history?
This story gets better every week.
So…. am I up to mediocre yet? …from crappy 8 chapters ago?
J/K Don’t answer. I’m having fun.
It’s a sliding scale, you’re up to “above average”.
I’m enjoying it,
The Arlington shooter had an attorney on speed dial?
He did report to an attorney he was talking to our homicide detectives he drove him
Authentic cop gibberish.
Shouldn’t he have been talking to the attempted homicide detectives?
Oh, and he’s already out on bail.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/student-arrested-in-texas-school-shooting-released-from-jail/
That was fast.
I keep an attorney business card in my wallet.
I do now. I didn’t when I was a high school student.
Of course, I also didn’t have the ability to google “criminal defense attorneys near me” on my phone back then either.
But on the gripping hand, yellow pages and pay phones were pretty common back then.
I’m only posting this for the pic (for Tres mostly).
https://www.ksla.com/2021/10/07/judge-orders-texas-suspend-new-law-banning-most-abortions/
Suthenboy orders judge to go fuck himself.
Should have known not to click.
*searches for eyebleach*
You don’t have a stockpile?
I pretty much warned ya…
Cher Horowitz: As if!
The one in front might be a bit much even for Tres.
I’m considering going back to school to pursue a dream of being an engineer and working in motorsports. I already have a degree in a different field and ten years experience, I just hate it. I won’t be taking on any debt to do it.
Stupid idea with the impending collapse of America?
Check the companies you want to work for. We’ve added a paid apprenticeship here, they may have something similar.
I don’t know about that. Acquiring the know-how to keep cars running seems like it may well have some practical utility in the coming “Road Warrior-like” society of the future.
I mean, other than all that wonderful perpetual-green-energy that is just like nuclear fusion that’s going to provide sustainable power for always. /greentard-progtard
I expect the internal combustion engine may still have a lot of useful life left, just not the way people think it will.
+ many Cuban BelAirs
So instead of Flaming guitars we get rusted out Tauruses from the ’90s?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajofbAp96OY
Mad Max, BSME.
I am more concerned about being halfway through school when things take a turn for the worse, housing gets nationalized and I can’t shelter my family because I waited too long, and the green assholes in the EPA ruin my dream.
I am going through several black pills a day at this point.
Fuck it.
If things really get that bad it won’t matter what you do.
I think you should pursue it. If I weren’t old and lazy I’d do the same goddamn thing.
Good luck!
Learn as many skills as possible, you never know what/ when you may need them,
I plan on being a Wizard, “I can make that generator run, 5 gallons of Ethanol is me askin’ price”
It’s a skill that should be sought after, right now. In Biden’s America, a decent used car will soon sell for 7 trillion dollars. So keeping them running will be a very lucrative business.
Seriously, I have 2009 Pontiac G6 GT and I have people approaching me all of the time lately who want to buy it. I broke the negative terminal on the battery last week, so can’t jump it. I called a local roadside mechanic and he can’t even come out for at least a week because he’s all booked up.
Keeping cars on cinder blocks in your front yard alongside the non-working washing machines from the last century is going to soon go from laughing at hillbillies to Beverly Hills trillionaires.
Hey, I want the motor out of that washing machine.
I get people asking about my jeep quite often. No chance. I will drive it until the wheels fall off of it…or my wheels fall off.
Good grief. I have a Lab mix that is about 20 years old. She has to pee every fifteen minutes. I just walked out with her so I could pee also. While I was standing there peeing she scared up a five foot long king snake that came zipping across the grass and went right between my feet. Harmless, I know , but it sure made me jump.
“She has to pee every fifteen minutes.”
Well, she’s a she. It’s what they do, you can’t even take them on a trip and drive more than 5 miles at a time before a bathroom break.
You must be married.
How’d you figure that out?
This is why I have a garage full of toilet paper.
https://www.rt.com/russia/536869-robot-marker-space-port/
Killer Russian robots, what could possibly go wrong?
Don’t worry, our new genius military leaders will scare off those robots with their new girly boy army.
At this point in life, I’m pretty sure I can no longer have children. I mean physically I can, just need to find a woman in her 20s willing to do the deed. Multiple times if necessary.
But I don’t want to be a dad in a wheelchair, at my child’s graduation, assuming I’m even alive at all.
I never settled and had kids because I was having too much fun.
We set the rules for our own extinction. My question is: Do we care? I don’t so much. What happens after I am gone doesn’t matter to me. BUT. Those of you with kids…. Bet it matters a lot.
Nope, they are self sufficient, and I have 7?8? Grandkids now. With Wendy gone, what happens to me now is of no consequence, So I’ll have a good time if I can, fuck it!
What made you think of that?
Toxteth, a little bit of drink, and a lot of retrospection, based on a jab mandate I know is coming. For better or worse that Beijing Biden’s hidden handlers, whoever they are, have done, they have started me to think about my exit from this world, I don’t want it, and I never planned for it…. But I know it’s coming soon, and I think I need to prepare for it.
Er, forums, hon? Who will start, you or me?
I also taught my Kids that this was coming, and be ready, and they are as ready as they can be, I raise no fools,
I have aged out as well (technically not, but don’t want to be wheelchair dad either). It is what it is – I wasn’t in a position to have kids when I was a more suitable age.
Coulda, woulda, shoulda.
Next Chapter is in the queue, Glibs.
I’ll see you next week – if not sooner around the virtual watercooler here.
Same Glib time, same Glib channel!