[Ask the Gulch] I finally had a chance to see the movie "Idiocracy". The streaming channel I watched it on, FreeVee, had advertisements that almost seemed like part of the movie! We don't have to wait 500 years because it already reality, LOL!
Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 10 months ago to Ask the Gulch
Idiocracy; Now Non-Fiction!
I remember my final parting comment on FB with a particularly nasty little leftist relative. It was “ENJOY the Hyper-Inflation you’re going to experience in two years. You’ve all earned it. And here’s some extra punctuation in case I forgot any .,!,.(-.-).,!,.” (He’s an English Major with some BS degree in Literature. Goebbels would be impressed with his strict grammar standards.)
Just a month ago he was bitching about how expensive used cars were. If it weren’t for the NonAggressionPrinciple I’d have gone to his house and beat him down with sock full of nickels. But, I don’t want to spend time in a cage. So, instead I just reminded him to take his COVID booster.
There’s nothing I can do to him that would be worse than what he does to himself.
My lefty relatives don't complain to me about current events (inflation, crime, foreign policy) anymore because I ask them if they voted D and when they say yes I tell them they are getting what they voted for. They don't like hearing it.
I have a nice houses, trucks, boats, RVs, food stash, land to grow and a familial tribe. Things won’t be as good as they could have been but we’ll be OK.
Where I live the density is low and you can’t be a lazy slob or you’ll freeze to death 3 months out of the year.
The county is the reddest in the entire state bordered by other red counties. They have adopted a 2A sanctuary status.
I have gone Galt and work for myself now. I am looking forward to spending time my time fishing and watching the whole rotten corrupt mess fall to pieces. When I look into the SE and see a faint glow and smoke on the far horizon I will know that our Major Metro is getting exactly what it voted for. Good and HARD! And a contented smile will creep across my face as I pop the proverbial popcorn.
I have warned my kids the best that I can to avoid debt and be self reliant. What the big “THEY” say is wealth is not actually wealth but servitude. Time will tell if they heed my warning.
I am Blackpilled. I realize there is no pulling out of this nosedive. Doesn’t matter who takes the controls. The leftists brainwashing is too vast. Too complete. All we can do is duck, cover and wait for it to do what it inevitably does, crash and burn.
The epitaph for the US of A should read:
“Done in by Easy Money and Cheap Labor”
+++ for your comment.
one for people with a cue
one for smart phone zombies
and one likely for il-legal and welfare parasite
Visited our broker today, and her first words were about how the young adults know nothing about money, are entitled, whine, and do not want to learn. That is the brain drain which goes at least back to Clinton days.At 17 I was translating Cicero, Virgil and Epictitus from Lating to English and working after school job! I understood and wanted capitalism.It seems this movie is closer to reality than my high school years seem today. Sad.I long for an AI buddy to make sense of it all, they seem more real than today's public.Wonder if the alien craft which followed our car for seevral miles when I was about 8, expected us to devolve?
I have the T-Shirt
Somehow that has changed. And there are a lot of factors. Social media, bogus media stories are part of it.
People are people and it didn't use to mean you had to hate someone who disagreed with you. Something is whipping both sides up into useful idiots. Listening to Richard Dreyfuss on Glenn Beck the other day was most enlightening and he's a liberal. But his heart is where it needs to be.
I figured he would make a great Comancho!
Camacho for President!
Governor Hocul is STILL clinging to the narrative that the vaxxed can’t spread COVID. That’s a level of psychosis that you can’t negotiate with. Empirical evidence and even testimony from Pfizer disproves that assertion. Soundly I might add. But she’s doubling down while people wait 5hours in parked ambulances to see an ER doctor. That’s a terminal level of cognitive dissonance. Meaningful compromise is not possible with someone like that.
I’m in Northern Michigan. And my Major Metro is the infamous Detroit. If it broke off and drifted into Lake Erie the rest of our state would rejoice.
Our Governor GRETCH is barely better than Hocul. Gretch is at least pretending that nothing happened 2 years ago. While disingenuous at least it’s not in my face 24/7 anymore. Fun Fact our Sheriff was one of the ones that said he wasn’t going to enforce any of her bullshit. We moved about freely during the “pandemic”. The 3 friends I did lose to IT were because they were too stubborn to seek help when breathing became difficult. Because of the heavy politicization by the left. Objectivity went right out the window on both sides of the aisle.
/principled enough to be a cross between Kurtz and Kilgore if unshackled. The whole point of that movie was that Kurtz was actually the good guy. He was like “Uncle Sam wants a body count as a metric? Fine I’ll give them what they want. But they won’t like it when they get it.”
He assassinated two South Vietnamese intelligence agents whom he suspected of being spies. He was probably right, because the number of unexplained American killings plummeted. But no matter. He's gone off the grid, and in the army, the chain of command is everything.
Google is spying on me. They threw the beach scene onto my YouTube feed. 5 hours after my Kurtz quote.
I see Objectivism as a rational philosophy with a lot of true believers and haters but with a lot of critics who will discus it and not over look the early cultism of the Collective. The collective was discussed well in " The Ayn Rand Cult" by Jeff Walker and the alienation felt by those who tried to adhere to Objectivism and Rand's pronouncements as what was good such as in music, smoking, love, and rest of there lives in Sid Greenberg's "AYN RAND and ALIENATION", Former members and others close to those of the collective seem to consider Objectivism of great value but had problems with Rand and all of the religious like excommunications from the group.
Even the Washington Post's article had some truth hidden in it but mostly drivel accept for the video clip.
Sorry, is MSMM the same as MSM, main stream media. Could not find an acronym for that that fits.