tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post3974441778638712557..comments2024-03-28T16:26:28.642-05:00Comments on driftglass: David Brooks Is Feeling Guilty So We All Have to Paydriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-62534969335680144832017-04-01T13:36:55.809-05:002017-04-01T13:36:55.809-05:00We see events through the lens of moral Marxism, b...<i>We see events through the lens of moral Marxism, blah, blah, blah.</i><br /><br />Who do you mean "we", Kemo Sabe? My response to every effing one of the bothsiderists.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-58754663941475669742017-04-01T09:21:09.095-05:002017-04-01T09:21:09.095-05:00Brooke's bullshit is old hat. He comes from th...Brooke's bullshit is old hat. He comes from the same school that brought us reductio ad Hitlerum and Stalin = Hitler. It's the old projection gimmick. <br /><br />Racists/fascists and their sympathizers pull out the "both sides" shit brush whenever they get caught doing what comes "natural" to them. When their aberrant guiding ideology of Sadism par excellence takes the wheel, plunder, confusion, chaos and mass suffering ensues. The situation inevitably leads people to ask why or how things went to hell. The Brooks, Bannons, Fleischers, uncle Tom Sowells (do any of you remember him?), etc. get visions of the Nuremberg dock,collective farms or Arctic labour re-education camps in their heads and crank up the projector.<br /><br />For these people (who crow on about individual accountability like like a pidgeon shits) personal accountability is to be avoided at all costs. <br /><br />It must always be someone else's fault -preferably the victim's-. We are then subjected to the weird method of fantasmic transmorgrification that makes the left opposition into racists, fascists, warmongers, "elitists" etc and so on as nauseum.<br /><br />Black Lives Matter are Black Shirts. Pink Pussy hats are femiNazis. Campus anti racists are anti free speech fascists. Whatever the aberrants (know they) are their opponents are accused of being. The accusations on the wing of projection, and backed by implicit use of force, are so base dumb that they inspire confusion among many in the opposition. And that is exactly what they are designed to do. <br /><br />Before I go on, the type of lying and games mentioned above should get the liars ten years hard labour- in the fucking cold.<br /><br />When it comes to these people, the best thing we can do is stop concerning ourselves with their rights to free speech or free anything for that matter. We should stop bitching about their activities and put a stop to them. Instead of buying into or legitimating their narratives, we need to "go down to the farm" or the "ghetto" and learn from the old school about how to deal with these people. We're overdue for socio-political Defendu. <br /><br />It will be ugly, gruesome and tragic -real revolutions generally are- but we should be used to that already as we continually allow our enemies to run things. And it's the ends that matter. Chief end being the survival of the species.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />RRHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01110767228447006154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-42120631402947344692017-03-31T17:06:59.657-05:002017-03-31T17:06:59.657-05:00So this is straight-up regurgitated content from T...So this is straight-up regurgitated content from <i>The Road to Character</i>, which featured this same "moral vocabulary" shit. And since that book was heavily recycled, it's a safe bet that this little nugget is making at least its third appearance. He really is out of material.<br /><br />Here's a relevant chunk:<br /><br /><i>Today, community service is sometimes used as a patch to cover over inarticulateness about the inner life...Many people today have deep moral and altruistic yearnings, but, lacking a moral vocabulary, they tend to convert moral questions into resource allocation questions.</i><br /><br />It's the kind of argument that comes when you have to explain the fact that the Kids These Days, whom you're condemning as a pack of soulless cutthroat narcissists, actually commit to more volunteerism than previous generations. Short version? It doesn't count because they don't talk about sin. Slightly longer version? Without the KTDs constantly talking about sin, we have to assume that they're only volunteering because they think they're awesome and no one else can help the world.<br /><br />This is the way this man thinks. It must be extremely confusing to be David Brooks.Andrew Johnstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05780648896926049012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-21893624565131241792017-03-31T14:48:15.176-05:002017-03-31T14:48:15.176-05:00If on one side you have a bunch of firemen and the...If on one side you have a bunch of firemen and the other side a bunch of arsonists, I don't think you can say that bothsides stuff holds up.bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-66456392828246500432017-03-31T14:06:40.941-05:002017-03-31T14:06:40.941-05:00One of my state Senators displayed his closely hel...One of my state Senators displayed his closely held religious beliefs. <br /> <br />Then felt so strong of these beliefs, decided to go public and pronounce to all, how proud we should be of him for his Saintly devotion. What was that last stand on Italy's Iter for him?<br /><br /> He could not bring himself to vote for Trump. So he voted for Pence for VP.<br />and said he left Trump blank. Our ballot was by ticket in which Trump and Pence were a Reese's peanut butter cup vote as was HRC and her VP><br /><br />That wasn't enough,<br />After the election he ran an article in the local paper that boiled down to his advice of our two choices.<br />1)<br />To perform your duty as a citizen as always (and some).<br /><br />2)<br />Pray......................!For the best<br /><br />Yes, these two offerings was his Savings Grace gift to us in the state.<br /><br />Odd how he is trying so hard to give Trump what he wants now. And how he still neglects to have town halls with those people he so sacrificed to provide his devout advice of the 2 blessing left in despair.<br /><br />How he does not want to speak with us in the state while he is busy approving the agenda of the candidate he said he did not vote for.<br /><br />As the rest of find concern to have town halls before the agenda is voted on and passed. <br />he did find time to meet with those individual concerned citizens at the Chamber of Commerce. And has now bravely and boldly announced he plans town halls in August (maybe). Because he is concerned about all those "Paid Activists and paid advocates disrupting the sacred town halls.<br /><br /> Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-5807164047732347522017-03-31T12:03:05.936-05:002017-03-31T12:03:05.936-05:00" the cold-eyed fanaticism of students at Mid..." the cold-eyed fanaticism of students at Middlebury College and other campuses nationwide"<br /><br />I don't think I will ever really understand how anecdotes about (rich, white) students at (expensive private) college have such a purchase on the minds of people like Brooks and Sullivan. Nor how they can sell this issue to Fox Nation. <br /><br />"a sense that they live in a loving universe marked by divine mercy, grace and forgiveness"<br /><br />Again with the god bothering. Take the Benedict Option, David. It's more than just hollandaise on your egg McMuffin. Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429309964648275918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-58471987762893606882017-03-31T11:30:55.097-05:002017-03-31T11:30:55.097-05:00I think what Mr. Brooks is really trying to say is...I think what Mr. Brooks is really trying to say is: <br /><br />There is no conservative arguments that don't make him (and his readers) look like a colossal, nearsighted, greedy, self serving pricks for insisting the sick should die, granny needs to starve, and 20 percent of our children should live in poverty so he can pay less taxes for a Government that will continue to work in his personal favor in perpetuity. <br /><br />Brooks had to proclaim the death of the Enlightenment's Secular Philosophies because these philosophies grow out of and have always stood in opposition to the people who pay his salary...who have always existed and hired lapdog nitwits like Brooks. <br />trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04718897286384990852noreply@blogger.com