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Spent the morning waiting for the Scottish Gas engineer who will definitely be here before 1:00, since its an emergency.  Now been told that the whole company only has one engineer for the whole of central Scotland, who is too busy, but will definitely be here before 5:00.    Screw you, Scottish Gas. 

A quick message for the quiet heroes of comic book production...




Easy.  Don't see what the big deal is. 

Hello!  Welcome!  Come on in.  How are you?  Did you come far?  Cup of tea?  There are some bourbons in the cupboard, I think. Please, take a seat. 

How familiar is that response?  Who else is willing to admit to having been on the receiving end?

I love that Tormund is completely oblivious to the disgust there.  He's just happy there's a big, sexy lady in his warband.

Its not quite politics, but also really is, so I just wanted to share Matt Lees' short talk on video games and  culture, and how angry extremist form in purpose build echo chambers of video games and social media.

www.coolghosts.net

Well, you can prove anything with "facts".  What really matters is how people feel, and who they can blame for their life not working out the way it should.  You won't find many leave voters who will happily admit to being wrong, because most of the movement was founded in irrationality.  It purposefully ignored evidence and openly told lies, creating a shallow pretense at logic which allowed people to pretend that their deep seated grievances and fears were justified, whilst being so vacuous as to but impossible to debate.

Stand quietly at the side of the road looking disapproving and hope no-one tries to run you over?

Ignore them until they go away?

Appease them?

Ahem...

Look, its simple...once we live in a world without "government", after we've cleared away the corpses, people will just be nice to each other, 'cos the "government" won't be making them break the illegal "laws" the "government" writes with its "pens". Its natural law, or common law, or something, and easily explained with a (usually transport or vehicle based) metaphor.  Also, its not my job to come up with solution, gov'nor, its for everyone to solve the problem on their own.

. Limit the powers and rights of government and the danger is greatly reduced.

The guy with the Confederate flag and the machine gun would agree.  Explain to me how the government getting less involved in this situation would make things better.

The second amendment, which Trump is of course an adamant supporter, actually requires for militias to form in defence of the democratic state in times of crisis.  Nazis and Confederates have a stated aim of destroying the democratic state with violence.  It is an American duty to punch Nazis and Thomas Jefferson says so.

I'm not being at all facetious.  I think that by the time of mass rallies it was too late.  I also think that the Nazis were not going to be stopped by public debate, and that extremists pretend to debate only to further their own position. 

The rise of the Nazis was a product of a people damaged by war, traumatized and sold easy answers.  They had limited information and were desperate.  Not many people supported Hitler because of his "kill everyone we regard as different" policy.  They voted for Hitler because of his "make Germany great again" policy.  Neo Nazis have mobile phones.  They are aware that the end point of their ideology is gas chambers and furnaces, and they welcome it.  They cannot be debated, because you're not going to provide the with any new information thats going to bring about an epiphany.  They already know your viewpoint, they just regard you as weak for not killing them in the same way they would happily kill you and everyone you care about.

Catching up on Twin Peaks.  Really, how successful can a guy be if he just stumbles from disaster to disaster, not understanding things, speaking in bits of sentences and just agreeing with the last person he spoke to?  I mean, that's just....

Oh.  Yeah.

The kids are too young to understand what's going on but if you punch their dad, you're the one who looks like a hate filled nutter!
"What happened to daddy?"
"Daddy got his face broken by someone who thinks we should all love each other."

There's a way to test this theory.  How popular is Nazism in modern Germany, and would it be more or less popular if we hadn't punched as many Nazis in the 1940's?

C'mon guys.  It's not all bad.  Sometimes politics is nice.  Look!  Baby boxes!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-40929355

Lovely little boxes for lovely little babies!  Who could disagree with that?  Lovely.

...and that's why I'm not even attempting to argue with him.

Well, that answers as many questions as it raises.

Man don't you just hate it when your in the supermarket, and you pick a till that has a short queue, but the people in front decide to pay with coupons, and the other till, the one you didn't choose, gets served first, and you end up waiting a little bit longer.  The supermarket clearly has some sort of Agenda against me.  I will never visit a supermarket ever again.  Anyone who disagrees with my self important world view is just virtue signalling rather than just a decent human being.


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