Yup. Again. Have a good weekend!…
While I'd first come across a deeper look at the history of sanitariums in this country courtesy of Aydin Paladin, this related, and in many ways overlapping, video by Stefan Molyneux is the springboard for this post. While both videos are good, the critical subject Stefan covers in greater depth is the connection between crime rates and dumping the people who used to live in Asylums and Sanitariums into the streets to be supposedly cared for. Especially how they then went back down as the war…
Not that some people are weeds. I'm mostly going to leave alone the shootings. One was an obvious leftist nut job, but hey, white and ostensibly male, so "violent white men". The other was more... complicated. But only barely, as the historically literate know that the whole class warfare based on race thing is based in old school progressivism. Not that "leftists are the real racists" gets any traction, but when the only thing remotely "right wing" in a screed full of income and social equal…
Or, how not to do a ceremonial firing of an artillery piece. The funniest part, other than watch her not have the strength to follow through, is that you know she had been trained for this, that everything was prepped to "make sure nothing went wrong", etc. - including almost certainly her doing previous firing pulls. The myth goes that in today's services, endurance, muscle mass, and upper body strength just aren't factors, and women are just as capable as men. Women just do not have the upp…
...a long time ago. Because I saw this coming. Think of it as a proto-awareness of what Taleb discusses as the tyranny of the intolerant minority and more to the point what happens around that with skin and the game, risk, and consequences pushed off to others. Or put another way - that company towns and their abuses existed because the government gave up on enforcing the law there. So leaving aside "crony" capitalism and bending politics to exclude competition, and leaving aside corporations…