Last week my son was attending his music class, while my wife and I waited outside with the other parents one of my wife’s friends (whose daughter is also a friend of my son’s and in the same class) started commenting on Trump and some of his policies (not hiding her utter disgust).
I kept to myself but was engaged about the issue regarding his border policy because my wife’s friend assumed I would agree due to my libertarian mindset and was sure I oppose the Trump movement because of my past support for Ron Paul.
I admitted I agree with the idea of “open borders” in theory from an ideological standpoint but in practice it doesn’t and won’t work. Government will never possess 100% respect property rights and give up on taxation, also people will always jump the border to gain benefits paid for by others.
She then brought up “diversity” (did I mention she works in the public school system) and how this can be a strength.
The night before I had just made a huge pot of chili, so I used chili as a very basic analogy.
I explained it in the following way:
Every person makes their chili a little differently, some ingredients are left out or just in smaller percentages but it is rare for 2 people to make an identical chili.
Think of the country like it is pot of chili, you have everything you want in the pot but then someone suggests you add onions. You think “onions” are disgusting. If you just take an entire onion and drop it into the pot it will stay in one piece and ruin the chili. But if you dice it up, allow the appropriate amount to be added and stir? Then you can actually improve the chili. The onions add its “flavor” but it isn’t overpowering, the components blend and absorb bits of one another (i.e. integrate). The result has the possibility of becoming greater than the individual components but the key imperative is that it isn’t transformed into something else, the chili remains chili.
Now, you’ve added the onions and are happy with this success, then it is suggested to add another ingredient: fecal matter. You are more open-minded because of the past success with the “onions” but this will not work, they assure you it will; but no matter how small the bits of fecal matter you allow in the chili it will ruin what you worked to build.
There is no getting around the fact that fecal matter is human waste and poisonous to ingest.
These people are fecal matter:
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They don’t want to make chili or add their good qualities to our chili to try and improve, they just want to make shit-stew.
Moral of the story: Don’t put shit in your chili.
Brilliant. Fucking brilliant!
Great analogy. I made a comment the other day about how diversity is only strength when everyone is working toward the same goal. Your goal was a pot of chili and mine was an engineering team building a manufacturing facility. It makes sense.
Sounds similar to my ‘mulligan stew’ analogy. You can put just about anything into it for ‘flavor’ and they all work together to make the stew better. BUT you can still identify the individual parts: a carrot is still a carrot , a tater is still a tater etc ad infinitum. The various flavors complement each other rather than isolate each other.
I came up with this idea several decades ago, originally called it Irish stew but since that would be attaching an ‘identity’ to the stew I decided mulligan was more apropos. The idea came about from my old grade school training regarding America being a ‘melting pot – we are not since that would mean we would all be exactly the same at the end. Nothing wrong with maintaining cultural identities per se, as long as they contribute to the well being of ALL.
For heaven’s sake…
fecal matter in Chili?? Is you nuts??
We are seeing an example of open borders in Europe.
Illiterate poor storm the borders/sneak across borders,
because they are hoping to get cash, goods and services.
Otherwise known as a “free lunch.” No free lunch = no sneakers.
A 5 yr. old might question this…”Mom, that isn’t fair! Shouldn’t
charity start at home? That is what Daddy said.”
Libertarians that push for open borders need to push for expensive
lunches first.
May I ask…who is trying to destroy our country? Our world?
George Soros, Race Wars And The End Game
one theory:
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Sticking with your analogy, I don’t believe we should be angry at the shit.
Instead we should be furious at fthe asshole who wants to add it to the chili.
By the way, I use pumpkin purée and diced pumpkin instead of tomatoes in my chili. Try it, you won’t go back.
That is funny, Harry. I’m curious how your teacher friend took it?
Mesomorph, out of curiosity, why did you drop tomatoes? Growing heirloom tomatoes is my hobby and I couldn’t imagine a chili without a couple quarts of our incredibly flavorful canned tomatoes. Did you go straight to diced and pureed pumpkin or did you try a combination with tomatoes first?
I’m hungry for chili…………
Rotten, rancid ingredients never improve any dish.
If your objective is to make fertilizer, shit can be a perfectly useful ingredient.
Put that human shit into the ground – with or without composting – and you’ve both detoxified it and made it serve its finest purpose.
“Shoot, shovel, and shut up.”
nothing wrong with keeping up with ones heritage etc, for instance, my moms side is completely irish so i occasionally drink too much jameson and end up in punches get thrown.
the public school employee didn’t like the analogy but it is just what came to me in the moment but i have zero fucks to give, like i said, not my friend.
true, you can’t be mad at the shit for being shit, that’s what it is. the “cook” putting it in is the one at fault and needs to be dealt with accordingly.
but because the shit is waste, it still needs to get flushed down the toilet.
Heh, good one.
My son asked me to make cinci chili tonight. Will leave out the shit. He will completely understand and will laugh when I till him your analogy Harry.
EF
He Mike,
I’ve just never had a taste for tomatoes but I also feel that the pumpkin offers fiber and nutrients that tomatoes don’t have. I’m sure your heirloom tomatoes aren’t as acidic as the store bought ones but by using pumpkin it cuts down on heartburn for people who have stomach issues. Also I believe squash is something lacking in most people’s diets and this is a delicious way to eat more.
I have never tried adding any tomato but not for any particular reason.
I cut the pumpkin in half and put it open side down on a cookie sheet and bake @350 for about a half hour to make purée and sauté some diced pumpkin to add texture. about the only other difference is that there is no need to sweeten your chili (if you do) because the pumpkin or kobiocha squash adds enough.
Oh. And no fecal mater.
Don’t you just love the taste of diversity in the morning?
it tastes like Shit…
This can’t be harry. Not the Harry I knew. Remember me, harry? And now you’re breaking with libertine orthadoxy. Slowly. Cautiously. Inevitably. Intelligently. Great piece, harry. Just busting your balls
Mesomorph I’ll try the pumpkin as I have fought with heartburn as I’ve gotten older (and fatter). Thank you for the suggestion.
No turds in my chili though. Never adding turds.
statist scumbag,
Doesnt ring a bell, i meet a lot of statists, gotta be more specific, lol.
Justcalling it as i see it, still think open orders is the ideal but we dont live in utopia so deal with what you got, not hope for zero problems.
(My guess is sensetti but i could be wrong, if it is, youve been quiet lately).
But this situation is like, there is some fecal matter buried in the onion. If you ONLY get bits of onion, it improves the chili, but you don’t want the part with the shit in it. If there’s no way to separate the onion from the shit, you don’t add the onion.
It’s on the onion to get rid of its own shit before you agree to add it to your chili.
Mike in GA
Ever raise mortgage lifters? I am going to raise 5th generation on my raised beds this year. I have had some plants give me 60 tomatoes of 20 oz each and if i trim properly I can get 150 awsome 12 oz red balls of sweetness. The key to mortgage lifters is water as to much will split the fruit and make ugly tomatoes. Finally got a job with weekends off so will also be doing 3 sisters mounds. Beans , corn, and squash although the squash we raise is unlike anything at kroger. It is the size of a pumpkin but like butternut in flavor. 3rd generation for the squash but the beans and corn will be newer.
I’ll pass on the chili at Harry’s.
I got two Cherokee tomato plants last year. They don’t have them this year. Too bad.
The good news is my year-old fuyu persimmon tree is coming back. Good, I didn’t kill it.
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Nice analogy – I will use it myself, given an occasion. But with some variations.
You see, there is a flaw in your angle of argumentation: by dubbing the 3rd-world-migrants as the “shit” in the chili, you just invite your opponent to dubb you a “racist” – case closed.
Don’t make it that easy for the “Gutmenschen”, the “Teddybärenschwenker” und “Bahnhofsklatscher” (Stucky will translate this for you).
Better use this angle: “…Now, you’ve added the onions and are happy with this success, then it is suggested to add another ingredients. A tiny can of peas, for example. I like peas. Some hacked, pickled cucumbers…a small handfull of peanuts…Salmiak liquorice…some Marshmellows…a handful of peppermints…”
Just add ever more and more absurd ingredients, until your opponent stops you with something like:” That’s ridiculous! These (ingredients x y z) don’t fit into a chili!”
And then answer like: “Oh! How come you know instinctively what fits into a chili and what not, and do n o t see, what doesn’t fit into a society?”
Something like that – I will think it over. Thanks again.
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