Rainy Monday
It's Monday and raining here in Chicago. Rain's actually a good thing - I put down mulch yesterday, so a nice soaking will bed it down.
On the Sad Puppy front, Torgersen's gone full-wingnut and invoked the specter of 9/11. Sayth he: I remember in the wake of 9/11 there seemed to be two camps forming. The first camp devoted itself almost entirely ( Read more... )
On the Sad Puppy front, Torgersen's gone full-wingnut and invoked the specter of 9/11. Sayth he: I remember in the wake of 9/11 there seemed to be two camps forming. The first camp devoted itself almost entirely ( Read more... )
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Seriously? Post Enlightenment crisis? FFS, what the fucking hell does he think WW2 was?
Not to mention, as sooooooo many others have on the thread - there was no bubble if you lived outside of the US you'd been living with terrorism for years.
Hell, some dick blew up a building in the US and killed 150 people in the 1990s and he was a local. Not to mention, American service people had been ongoing targets all over the world for decades too. Seriously, the lack of comprehension, understanding or knowledge of the man is astounding!
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And the USA I lived in was in the second camp to the point where we started a couple of wars over it, in a rather hasty and poorly-thought-out manner, I thought at the time. I'm not quite sure what alternate reality he came from but it clearly had a much stronger "let's look at the actual history and see how we got here" contingent.
Regarding the grills, if the Weber is easier to use, and in particular easier to clean, than the Char-Broil, you may wind up blessing the money spent. If not, maybe not so much.
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http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/04/09/a-response-to-george-r-r-martin-from-the-author-who-started-sad-puppies/
You might find this interesting… If you bother to read it.
I encountered an article by an extreme-right neo-Zealot acquaintance of mine whom I've called Tweedledee to his (online) face, because the difference between his posts and the Social Justice Warriors is sometimes hard to discern straight off:
> Some people were surprised and others saddened when George R. R. Martin
> came out against the Sad Puppies 3 campaign to restore control of the Hugos
> to the fans, and expressed (some) support for the Scalzi cabal which is
> currently trying to control the nominations and voting. I was not
> surprised, though I am still saddened, because George R. R. Martin is a
> great author, the sort who could succeed in the field even if the Haydens
> of Tor opposed him…
( ... )
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When the first plane hit the first tower on September 11, 2001, the bubble popped - and the article skidded off the tracks. Up until then, he was speaking true.
Problem is, yes, history wasn't done with us yet - because Leftism is a religion, whether it be environmentalism, feminism, collectivism, the lot. There is dispensed, received, incontestable truth; there are high priests, catechisms - and Inquisitions. The “first camp” he speaks of, the Fifth Column of anti-Western, anti-rational, specifically anti-American subverted intelligentsia, were around for decades before 2001, and the rot they have worked - by deliberate intent and design - on the social fabric of the West is the major reason why the chattering classes in Europe are concerned that they're about to be inundated by an obsolete historical footnote which hasn't conquered anyone under its own power for five hundred years. Islam is no stronger per se than it ever was - it simply hasn't changed, while the West has been systematically and deliberately poisoned, weakened ( ... )
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