Tag: Leftism

Our Sweet Victory over Science

Submitted by aka.attrition

Source: https://pushingrubberdownhill.com/2022/11/03/our-sweet-victory-over-science/#

by Adam Piggott

There’s been a fair bit of chatter concerning the Atlantic article where the Left is attempting to push the events of the past two years into a shallow hole and cover it up with leaves. Karl Denninger has responded in his usual diatribe which consists of his overuse of the world ‘fuck’, and the bold and underline options. Read it if you would like to know how an articulate 10 year old might respond.

Sev has a much better take and I encourage you to read it. He notes that the Left are not attempting to blame it all on Trump, which is weird as the Vaxx was indeed Trump’s thing.

But they’re not doing that. Instead, we’re getting that weird Ilhan Omar thing they’re sometimes forced to do — some people did some things — which is the closest you’ll ever get to a Leftist admitting xzhey were wrong. Leftists of course can’t admit error. They’re physically incapable of it, but they’re also definitionally incapable of it. They’re on The Right Side of History ™; that’s what Leftism is; and so if they’re wrong about something, they can no longer be Leftists. “Some people did some things” is the closest they can come…

….and that’s where they are now.

I want to add a further point along the lines of ‘know thy enemy’; you know, that old Sun Tzu Art of War thing. Continue reading “Our Sweet Victory over Science”

It Is What It Is

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

I was in a gathering of folks when a dispute escalated between a husband and wife over what has now become the title of this article.  During our discussion someone recited those words and the wife divulged how much she hated that statement.  After quietly listening to the exchange for a few moments, the husband spoke up and said:  “Well that must be more proof of how opposites attract, because I LOVE that phrase and I say it all the time!”

Which may have been part of the reason why the wife disliked the expression, but I wasn’t about to go there.

Instead, I mentioned how that particular shibboleth of sorts was surely defined in the minds of the beholders.  On the one hand, its utterance could be an excuse – even a fatalistic expression derived from laziness or defeatism.  Or, like the purveyor of produce in Ayn Rand’s epic tome, “Atlas Shrugged” – when Dagny Taggart asked the grocery vendor why she didn’t move her product from out of the sun and into the shade and her reply was:  “Because it’s always been that way”.

Oh, the world sucks?  Of course it does.  Why bother.

It is what is.

Continue reading “It Is What It Is”