SOTI*:
I am accepting nominations in Comments for this unlucky billionaire exemplar, but whoever you decide should be eaten, he’ll have to work hard to beat George Soros.
Call it a variation of the “One Shot” game we’ve played here before.
*seen on the Internet OR someone/somewhere on the Internet.
Then we have this lunacy:
The goal is to “reimagine” the traditional family beyond fatherhood and motherhood with such roles being replaced, in a “more universal sense,” where children are not “property” of their parents, but “raised by society as a whole.”
“I suppose that I’m called to the challenge of thinking about these really difficult questions of how those intimate spheres are affected by capitalism and how they are political.
“The left needs to get a little bit braver also at challenging the rhetoric of motherhood. Because a lot of the people who do mothering, I call them mother-ers to just ram home the point, that we can mother one another after the abolition of the family, this is what will hopefully be lifted up.
“To abolish the family is not to destroy relationships of care and nurturance, but on the contrary, to expand and proliferate them. Reflecting on the conditions of possibility for such universally xenofamilial — that is to say, comradely — kin relations … argues for utopia(nism) in feminist kinship studies.”
Nurturance? Xenofamilial? Seriously?
The author of this Marxist lunacy is named Sophie Lewis:
Really?
Nah, I’m kidding — that’s another Sophie Lewis altogether. This is the expert on “feminist, trans and queer politics and philosophy”, who looks exactly as you’d suspect she would:
There’s never a ducking-stool at hand when you need one, is there?
I don’t know what Sophie #1’s opinion on child-rearing is, but I’ll take hers ahead of the Marxist’s, sight unseen.
So Oregon’s prospective gun owners are going to get it in the shorts:
Gun sales more than doubled in Oregon with Ballot Measure 114 (BM 114) pending, and Oregon State Police are struggling to keep up with the demand for background checks.
KDRV reports that BM 114 passed by a margin of 50.9 percent to 49.1 percent, and will take effect December 8, 2022. The measure requires a permit, which costs $65, to purchase a gun. It also bans “high capacity” magazines and requires law enforcement to maintain a database of gun permit applicants, among other things. The process for getting a gun permit under BM 114 includes submitting fingerprints and passing a gun safety course.
And for all those Oregon gun owners who couldn’t be bothered to go out and vote on Nov 8: you have only yourselves to blame.
Ahhh that democracy thing… although I bet that if this “initiative” ever makes it to the Supreme Court, it will get revoked. Keyword: “if”.
…a.k.a. Don’t Take A Rock To A Gun Fight.
The executive summary: Goblin attacks homeowner, follows him into his house carrying a rock, homeowner gets gun and provides a satisfactory ending for all concerned. Except for the deceased, that is, but we don’t care about him.
…and now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to the voting booth. I’ve been looking forward to this day for TWO YEARS.
And from Reader Termite, a timely reminder:
…just to be on the safe side, of course.
Here’s a fun little intellectual exercise:
Letting meat eaters drown is ethical because of the suffering they cause to animals, an Oxford University academic has controversially argued.
There’s nothing “controversial” about it. His only supporters are going to be rabid vegans, and other so-called intellectuals, whereas the rest of us would drive him from the village, pelting him with stones and rotten fruit on his way out. Apart from the chilling indifference, the application of such a judgmental credo in a life-or-death situation is not only awful but contrary to human nature. (One can only imagine the “HHHAAATTTERRRR!” abuse that would come my way if I were to suggest that letting vegans drown under similar situations would at least lower the shrillness of society’s ambient background noise…)
That said, if I came upon said asshole burning to death in the street, I might actually pause for a moment before pissing on him to extinguish the flames, so maybe I’m not much better than he is.
By the way, here’s another little intellectual exercise for you. Ignoring his nationality for a moment, do you think this bastard’s philosophy would be found more often in Democrat, or Republican voters?
Food for thought.
