From Insty:
The purpose of “women’s groups” isn’t to help women. It’s to keep women agitated, suggestible, and submissive to leftist ideology. And leftist ideology is all about getting, retaining, and exercising power.
Women’s groups used to have a proper purpose in Western society. Then, as the wrongs they protested were gradually eliminated, they lost their need to exist, but refused to do so.
It’s like still getting upset about the use of small boys as chimney-sweeps.
One of the many pleasures of reading Instapundit is Glenn Reynolds’s use of (mostly) single sentences as pithy commentary on whatever link he posts. Here’s an example:
…and:
In the latter, he’s talking about the Chinkvirus pandemic models, but of course it’s equally applicable to the climate change versions, and just about all the other government- and academic models as well.
“Wise Words”, therefore, is going to become a regular feature on this back porch, gathered under the “Quote Of The Day” umbrella.
From an email:
Dear Friends,
Today marks 4 weeks of isolation. I’ve been walking 2.5 miles a day around my neighborhood, increased my water consumption, no meat, no sugar, no dairy, no caffeine and no flour. The change has been fantastic! I feel great! Zero alcohol! Lost 17 pounds of fat and now see muscle definition.
People like this are usually murdered.
From Insty (in response to this bullshit):
“People entrusted with guns and the power of arrest need to have good judgment, and the ones who judge poorly need to be punished or sacked.”
…or horsewhipped, or beaten with chains, or…
I’m thinking of those “no-knock” warrants served at the incorrect address, where someone gets killed by overzealous policemen acting like Imperial stormtroopers.
I can’t remember who said this (sorry to him/her), but I can’t let that stop me from posting it (because it’s wonderful):
Almost everybody who has actually studied history at all thinks actual socialism (as opposed to your fluffy magic unicorn version) is evil, while those who have studied history and still want it are wannabe totalitarians and statists who think it sounds awesome, because they assume they’re going to be the ones in charge. Then they sell the fluffy unicorn version of socialism to the useful idiots.
They tell you it’s social programs and fairness, when actual reality is bread lines, inefficiency, and eventually gulags and firing squads.
Absolutely.
From this guy:
“[Preppers] are not the ones who are causing shortages of anything. It’s the mental midgets and digital deadbeats who have been face-down in social media slop – buried in political bullshit and being led around by their clickmasters – instead of learning to look at life realistically, assessing options for an uncertain future and then pre-planning accordingly, that are to blame.”
Without sounding like a closeted Lefty: I don’t know a single person who has been panic-buying and rushing from store to store like a maniac, looking for toilet paper.
Let me rephrase that. Everyone I know has had pretty much all they need to survive a couple-three weeks of enforced isolation without having to buy anything more than a few products, none in “bulk”.
Long, long ago I made the following statement:
“I don’t just want gun rights. I want everything that goes along with it: individual liberty, a culture of self-reliance, self-restraint and civic responsibility… I want the whole bloody thing.”
Nowadays, the “self-reliance” part of that statement is more relevant than ever, and if I’ve done even a little to foster that, then it’s job done.