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I agree with Larry Correia and his opinion on George Takei:

There is no false equivalence at all. Takei is speaking of using coercion (whether government/societal, or in this case both) to take away freedoms, with the justification of “the greater good.”

Now, you might personally think that this particular “greater good” is worth taking away freedoms. Don’t matter. It’s still equivalent. Let’s try it out. The threat is Y. The freedom is X.”

A lot of people are angry about ( Y ). I don’t care, because we need to do something about (X )for the greater good. The needs of society are more important.”.

Now, go through and stick most of history’s atrocities in there and see if they don’t fit.

Germans were scared of Jews. Something had to be done for the greater good of society. Turks didn’t like Armenians. Stalin really didn’t like uppity Ukrainians. The Japanese are going to be saboteurs loyal to the empire. Somebody had better sterilize those natives. Hey, let’s see how long it takes for black dudes to die of syphillis in the name of science! So on and so forth.

But this is DIFFERENT than those.

Why? Why is it different? Because you personally are scared of this X and think Y is worth it? Because guess what? All of those people said the same damn thing.

We see this bullshit every single day. We need to take away guns for the greater good. We need to take away free speech for the greater good. You need to have a social credit score for the greater good.

It’s all authority pandering to fear to get more power. Every fucking time.

So spare me the false equivalence. It is extremely equivalent.

But this isn’t as bad! It’s just one little “common sense” thing! Then it’ll go back to normal. Uh huh… And the Nazis didn’t get elected and start gassing Jews a week later either. The Holocaust happened through a series of escalating events, each of which was a crisis (according to the authorities) which required slightly more action. 1935 was not the same as 1945. Duh.

So I’d rather not start down that path of declaring some groups of humans as untermensch who need to be managed by the state for the greater good, AT ALL.

The people on the left, the ones from the city, think that they understand the culture of those who don’t live in the city.

They don’t understand that there are thousands of people who spend thier weekends shooting and think nothing of hitting a paper plate from 300 yards away- and farther. Many of those people have no idea of the difficulty of such a shot.^*

You say that you want to take our guns away. To them, there is this message.⁺

There are many thousands of Americans who feel this way. I refuse to submit. I refuse to be defeated. I am an armed American patriot, and freedom is my birthright. I will not be subjugated, and because I am armed, I and my fellow armed Americans will be difficult to load into the boxcars.

* Hitting an 8 inch paper plate from 300 yards is a shot that requires moa accuracy. A person capable of that kind of accuracy would be able to hit a person from 500 or even 600 yards.

+ I really like this band. Good old fashioned southern rock. As a general rule, any band with a Rebel Flag guitar usually plays good music.

So we contacted our friend who is trapped in Kabul. She says that she is “on base,” where she and her coworkers are trying to assist other Americans and Afghanis in evading the Taliban and getting on aircraft. They have apparently established some sort of underground railroad kind of operation.

I don’t know what base she is talking about. If anyone is familiar with Kabul and would like to give your opinion, I would live to hear your thoughts in comments.

I have no idea who she is working for. I am beginning to think that it is a three letter agency.

It might as well be a Democrat Party Membership card. Jesus, it’s like belonging to the Soviet Communist Party.

Talk about virtue signaling. It’s like a cult.

The selected resident of the oval office is now offering Federal funding to local officials who defy the legitimate orders of their chief executive, who is in turn defying the unconstitutional orders of the President.

We are seeing the breakdown of government authority at all levels.

Until recently, Taiwan had little to fear from China. The PLAN had no real amphibious capability, and was therefore unlikely to be in a position where it could invade.

Until recently.

The Chinese have begun retrofitting ferries so that they can carry amphibious mechanized battalions. China is upgrading its military in a big way. The world is now on notice that China has imperial ambitions.

The CDC has reversed its decision to let the eviction moratorium expire, and has reinstated that moratorium until October 3. The actual text of the order can be found here. (pdf warning) There is one possibility that I see to removing a tenant:

If there is another part of the lease that is being violated, or if the lease has expired, it seems to me that there is room here.

Where does this end? Is there any endpoint where a property owner gets his property back? There is all of this talk about “people losing their homes,” but the people losing their homes are the landlords, not the tenants.

Congress couldn’t do it. The President can no longer do it. A judge in Atlanta can.

Override civil contracts by fiat, that is. The eviction moratorium expired at midnight Saturday night, except in Atlanta, where a judge claimed that evictions would be prohibited for another 60 days.

If I were an Atlanta area landlord, all servicing of rental properties would stop. No more trash collection, property taxes, or any other services would be taken care of. You might as well admit that in some areas of the nation, the right to private property no longer exists.

What if Donald Trump declared that he was transgender, and her new pronouns were to be she/her, and then the newly minted Desmond Trump announced her candidacy for President? Which would win? The hatred of all things Trump, or the love of all things tranny?

I am currently fishing on the Penobscot River, just a few miles south of the Canadian border. There isn’t much in the way of cell service up here, and since you are reading this, it means that I didn’t get today’s post done due to lack of internet access.