Month: February 2022

Honking

Marxists, Politics, Resistance

An interesting piece sent from Loyal Reader Bill V arrived in my email.  For the first time, it gives a name for the two groups facing off against each other all over the world — the Physicals and the Virtuals.  Read it, it’s all good, but this is especially noteworthy:

The thinking classes are fatally removed from the physical side of life… Their only relation to productive labor is that of consumers. They have no experience of making anything substantial or enduring. They live in a world of abstractions and images, a simulated world that consists of computerized models of reality – “hyperreality,” as it’s been called – as distinguished from the palatable, immediate, physical reality inhabited by ordinary men and women. Their belief in “social construction of reality” – the central dogma of postmodernist thought – reflects the experience of living in an artificial environment from which everything that resists human control (unavoidably, everything familiar and reassuring as well) has been rigorously excluded. Control has become their obsession. In their drive to insulate themselves against risk and contingency – against the unpredictable hazards that afflict human life – the thinking classes have seceded not just from the common world around them but from reality itself.

Hence their hatred of the working classes — the “Physicals”.  (By the way, you may recall the predicament of Manhattanites about a decade or so ago, when told they needed to seal off their apartment windows with duct tape against aerial contamination — and learning that these twinks not only didn’t know what duct tape was, they had no idea where to buy it.  It was funny back then;  it’s a fact of life for them now.)

We are heading for interesting times.

Not Another One

Gun/Ammo Tests, The Gun Thing

Ah, jeez… just when I thought I’d seen everything I wanted to see about old guns (thankee Othias/Mae at C&Rsenal, and Ian McCollum on “Forgotten” Weapons), I came across 9-Hole Reviews…

…and good-bye to the rest of my so-called free time.

My favorite so far:  the K98 and the K98 mounted with what Gun Jesus calls “the worst German sniper scope of WWII” (or something like that).  Of course, in the hands of a decent (!) rifleman with good eyes, it’s pretty damn good.  Note how his accuracy improves over iron sights, with a simple 1.5x scope and a German #4 post reticle.

No need to thank me — or curse me, for that matter — it’s all part of the service.

News Roundup

Bad News

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And speaking of assholes and Manhattan:


…oh no no no, you guys have to live with the consequences of your foolishness until the next Republican president gets to the White House.


…shoulda told those liberal Connecticut asswipes to go pound sand.  And in a not-entirely-unrelated item:


…because of course they do.


…I don’t know whether to laugh, cry, or just punch this demented bitch in the face.


…good thing my kids are grown, because if anyone called the cops on me for that, I’d tell them and the cops to MYOFB, or get somewhat more than a “smack” from me.  Fucking busybodies.


…ah jeez. another “mental health” in a headline.  At this rate, I’m going to have to start ordering gin deliveries by the case.


…man, he must have fucked up badly.


…until los federales start harassing your peaceful protest;  then shut ’em off and let them die.

From the Department of Total Suckage:


…one of the best rock vocalists of all time.

Oh look:  the Greens are coming back!


…let’s not forget all those mid-19th century SUV stagecoaches.  And right on cue:


…get lost, Fuckface.

And in the Heart Of Stone Department:


…cue tiny violins.  And:


…I’m sorry, but I can’t stop laughing at this one — a blind guy wandering around a car park?  As Larry the Cable Guy says, “That’s some funny shit right there”.  And imagine if the second unfortunate soul had senile dementia?  But in the meantime:

And now is time for INSIGNIFICA:

 


…and the proof:


…because if Paris is doing it, it’s the new trend.

Try to contain yer excitement.  Because coming to a WalMart near you:

Personal Recognisance

Taxes and Theft

Is any government agency hated more than the IRS?  I don’t mean at any specific time, just in general.  Here’s their latest little escapade:

After an initial backlash over its facial recognition feature, the Internal Revenue Service said Monday it started a new option that will allow taxpayers to sign up for online accounts without the use of the controversial biometric data.

Taxpayers wanting to use its services online will still have to use ID.me to register, but people will have the option of verifying their identity during a “live virtual interview” instead of uploading a video selfie.

“This is consistent with the IRS’s commitment earlier this month to transition away from the requirement for taxpayers creating an IRS online account to provide a selfie to a third-party service to help authenticate their identity,” the IRS said in a statement.

ID.me said in its own statement that the verification process with an agent will take from 5-10 minutes, not including the wait time for the next available video chat agent.

The IRS said taxpayers will still have the option to use facial recognition if they like through ID.me.

Of course, this is just to help us, the victims of their godless theft, and would never ever cross-our-hearts be shared with any other Gummint Alphabet Agency, oh no.

Hey, instead of facial recognition, how about a simple digital signature?  Here’s mine:

Fuckers.