Anti American left

“Scientists”

A group of scientists have declared that lobsters, shrimp, and cuttlefish are sentient and conscious. The specialties of the scientists?

A review of the signatories on this declaration indicates most of the expertise is in philosophy, psychology, and environmental studies.

They are no more qualified to comment on this than I am on any number of random subjects. By using the term “scientists,” they attempt to claim an expertise that they do not possess. It’s like that time a bunch of Doctors expounded on gun control.

Just because you have expertise in one field doesn’t mean that you have been granted any special wisdom in any other.

By Divemedic, ago

The Third Subculture

Back in November, NPR did this interview where they identified three gun subcultures

Recreational- hunting and target shooting, with this group focusing on hunting rifles and shotguns

Defense- self defense. This group supposedly focuses on handguns

Second Amendement. They claim that this group has come about over the last ten years, and focuses on a belief system and primarily “assault style weapons.”

The key admission here is this:

But we do know that about 1-in-20 Americans now own an assault-style rifle. And about 1-in-5 gun owners own an assault-style rifle. We know that manufacturing of this style of rifle has increased dramatically since the end of the assault weapons ban, the federal ban that ended in 2004.

So right around then, assault-style rifles accounted for about 2% of all guns manufactured in the U.S. And in 2020, that same style of gun accounted for about 25% of guns manufactured in the U.S. 

Sounds like “in common use” to me. But I think those numbers illustrate just how many gun owners there are. Do the math- If 5% of Americans and 20% of gun owners own an “Assault style rifle” that means 25% of Americans own a firearm. They are trying to say that 90 million people own 600 million firearms and billions of rounds of ammunition.

If even 1% of them decide that they are going to resist the government with arms, the cops and military are outmanned and likely outgunned. Remember that at the height of Afghanistan, there were about 20,000 insurgents, and those 20,000 goatherders kicked the US military’s ass. Now imagine that there are 900,000 insurgents, some of whom are in the military, and all of them sitting near the military’s logistical base and families.

That must keep the tyrants awake at night.

By Divemedic, ago

Trump Wins Again

Trump’s Presidency will turn out to have been one of the most positively impactful events in recent history. The fact that he was able to put a right leaning SCOTUS in place is going to have a positive impact on the US for decades. In a landmark 9-0 ruling on Wednesday that you will never hear about in the media, the US Supreme Court has undercut all DEI-based discrimination, sending the Marxists into a tizzy. The case Muldrow v. St Louis, was decided on April 17 and can be read in its entirety here.

The US Supreme Court’s ruling that a St. Louis police sergeant can sue over a job transfer she claims was discriminatory because of DEI policies lays the foundation for legal action against employers who push discrimination against white people in job hiring, work assignment, and promotion.

That’s right, those “diversity-preferred” job postings, the practice of passing over whites for promotions, discriminatory job transfers, pushing unfair diversity trainings, etc…all of these are now legally actionable. The ruling was championed by human rights groups as “an enormous win for workers,” but has lawyers for companies like Disney warning that it could have a chilling effect on employers’ diversity initiatives.

Disney’s “Pale and Male is Stale” policy is a prime example. Disney has allegedly used it to drive out white animators by giving them the worst assignments, even though they have the most experience, skill, and seniority, in order to make the job humiliating enough that they quit…which many of them have done. The same companies argue that there is ‘good discrimination’ and “bad discrimination’, that white people should be purposely disadvantaged to pave the way for diversity. The lawyers stated that the decision will ‘complicate’ DEI programs and limit their ability to discriminate against white men. (Good) The Supreme Court torpedoed these claims, re-asserting that everyone is equal in the eyes of the law.

By Divemedic, ago

Hate Crime

This country is done. It’s a hate crime to tear down the Fag Flag, but not to tear down the American one.

By Divemedic, ago

Myth Busted

The climate change hucksters are claiming that March of 2024 was the warmest on record. I thought this year was rather cool, so I did a little checking.

I have a personal weather station on the roof of my (old) house. It recorded the temperature of March for years. This year, there were 11 days where the high temperature never went above 79 degrees, last year there were 8. In 2024, the high temperature was not above 90 degrees on any day of the month. In 2023, the mercury rose above 90 degrees three times.

There were 5 days in 2023 where the low temperature was below 50 degrees. There were 9 such days in 2024. The coldest morning of March 2024 was 42 degrees, on the 20th. In 2023, the thermometer showed that we hit 42 degrees twice, and 41 was the low for the month, on the 21st.

In other words, it was cooler this year than it was last year, but not by much. Still, that means this March was certainly not the hottest ever. Don’t piss on my shoes and tell me that it’s raining.

By Divemedic, ago

Just Play the F*cking Song

John Meloncamp was giving a political speech in the middle of a concert when one of the people who paid to be there yelled out “Just play some music,” which really pissed off Meloncamp.

The same thing happened to me about 15 or 20 years ago, when I went to see Tonic in concert. In between songs, the band began to complain about what they referred to as “George Bush’s illegal war” and I yelled out “just play the fucking song.” Let me tell you, I almost got in a fight with several nearby concert goers who took exception to that. I don’t understand why some stoner with a guitar’s opinion on geopolitical relations is more valid than my own. If he wanted to pontificate on which guitar or microphone is of higher quality, I would listen because it’s in his wheelhouse.

International relations? Politics? Notsomuch.

Note also that he called the heckler a cocksucker, as if that word was a pejorative slur. That sounds like John wasn’t being very inclusive. In fact, it’s downright homophobic. Hoist him by his own petard.

By Divemedic, ago

But Illegals Can’t Vote…

I have been informed that illegals can’t vote, so there is no way that the Democrats are using the open border to rig the election. With that being the case, we don’t need a law requiring an ID and proof of citizenship to cast a ballot.

Until flyers being distributed by a US NGO that helps facilitate the illegal crossing of the US-Mexico border were intercepted. The flyers distributed in Mexico encourages illegals to vote for President Biden.

The flyer reads:

“Reminder to vote for President Biden when you are in the United States. We need another four years of his term to stay open”

By Divemedic, ago