RashyNullPlanet

More cannibals on parade:

The best way to change the system, then, is to stick your fingers in your ear and scream “IM NOT VOTING”

A very mature political system blooming in your utopia, for sure.

My response, in its entirety, because I’ve been following this prolific cannibal for some years now:

It’s amazing the presumptions that can be fit into a single sentence.

When did you stop having intercourse with livestock?

See?

You’re screeching that I’m ignoring reality, when, in fact, you’re the ostrich plowing your head into the sand. What are you afraid of? I’ve been dragging you around here by your eyeballs for some time now, and all you’ve managed to do is be another data point demonstrating that a person can be shown concepts but can’t be made to think.

You’re also assuming that I want to change “the system”. All I want from “the system” is for it to remove the muzzle of its gun from my back and let me go about my life without duress. I don’t care if “the system” continues apace, slowly withers, or inevitably blossoms into an orgy of cannibalism, as long as you and your fellow votistas leave me and my life the hell out of it.

Perhaps the dumbest assumption you’re making is that I aspire to some utopia. I don’t. Humans are fallible. Anything humans do will have flaws, however, when those flaws are instituted as centralized process and “law”, there is no escape. On the other hand, when those flaws are part of decentralized associations, they victimize many fewer people.

I would never presume to make decisions about your life. That’s part of why I don’t vote. I don’t know what’s best for you. Why would you do that to me? You have no way of knowing what’s best for me. Do you have the balls to make me comply with your decisions about my life in person?

Would you dare attempt to make me comply with your preferences for my life, face to face? There is only one answer to that question, and that answer defines you as human or cannibal.

As usual, I expect he’ll go out like a light

Many thanks to Billy, for much of the ammo to use against such creatures.

My comment, on a local forum, just now:

Voting is a long-shot bet that someone will shoot your neighbor on your behalf, and give you a slice of the corpse to curb your hunger.

Once again, your words reveal your heart.

You can lead a person to concepts, but you can’t make him think.

A former home-owner in Phoenix quits paying her mortgage and blames everyone else:

A little more than a year ago, I bought a four-bedroom tract home with a pool, in a very nice subdivision in Scottsdale, Arizona, for $570,000.

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Suddenly, the house I bought for $570,000 is worth…$380,000?!?!

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What this means is that I, as a responsible homeowner, am now paying a mortgage of $450,000, on a house worth $380,000…

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I never thought I would be the type to end up in foreclosure, but last month I made the decision to stop paying my mortgage.

Alisa, you made a commitment. A promise. You signed a contract vowing you would pay what you promised.

You’re bailing out before you’ve honored your promise, and that makes you a liar and a thief, not to mention a colossal moron for imagining that a house is an investment. You allowed yourself to be consumed by tulip mania and you’re going to walk away from your obligation. Your actions prove you’re not a “responsible homeowner”. On the contrary, they prove that you can’t be trusted to keep your word.

This would have been a comment on Alisa’s blog, but she’s disabled comments on that entry.

Alisa’s bullshit via Billy.

Update: Alisa removed her original post, stating “Way too many crazy, ignorant people linking to this post from fascist sites. Not worth the gray hair”, revealing that she’s not only a liar and a thief, but a coward as well.

And, by the way, Alisa, “fascist” doesn’t mean what you imagine it means.

Chrysler, GM, and Ford want to suckle, too:

Even as lawmakers in both parties unleashed a barrage of questions about the wisdom of a government rescue for the American International Group, support seemed to be growing quickly on Capitol Hill for $25 billion in loan guarantees to assist the ailing auto industry.

Both presidential candidates, Senator John McCain of Arizona and Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, have voiced support for the loan guarantees ? an unsurprising stance given the critical importance of the main auto-producing states, Michigan and Ohio, to the electoral map this fall.

The chief executives of the three big American automakers ? General Motors, Ford and Chrysler ? met on Wednesday afternoon with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

When they emerged, they expressed optimism that the loan guarantees would be included as part of a budget resolution that is needed to finance government operations through the end of the year.

Chrysler, GM, and Ford?should be?careful what?they wish for. If the AIG model is followed, those car companies could easily become the US AvtoVAZ:

The Avtovaz project was promoted as a dynamic feat of collective socialist effort…

Compare that to this:

These are jobs. These are cars that we should be selling ? or manufacturing in America, not someplace else.

– Harry Reid, as quoted in the NYT article

There?is no difference between those two statements. With those loans will come?even more?destructive government oversight.?

NY Times article via?Radley Balko.

“What if I can best help others by redistributing their wealth to the community? By gunpoint if necessary?”

My answer:

You’d be misconstruing “best”, for all involved. And you’d be ignoring what’s right.

You’d be a thief and an enabler, and probably a kidnapper and a murderer.

And you’d rightfully be dead if you had the stupidity and nerve to try to impose that premise on your own. Instead, you’d rather delegate your collectivist fantasy, via some cowardly vote, to a gang of bipedal rottweilers who have been trained to ignore their own consciences.

I’ve been subjected to the local news about Kwame and his self-induced problems for the past eight months. I caught a few minutes of the hearings just before he finally figured out that his epochal temper tantrum wasn’t going to keep him out of jail. The local news machines repeatedly claimed that Detroit was “paralyzed” with Kwame in legal limbo. On the contrary, everyone I know continued to work their regular jobs to make ends meet, despite the antics of Kwame.

Detroit folks will pay for his megalomania for years, if not decades. But are they paralyzed? Not even close. They don’t need him. Most of them just haven’t figured out yet that they don’t need him.

I’ve been chipping away at the essays in Martin Luther King’s “Why We Can’t Wait” for a little while now. In “The Summer of Our Discontent”, King writes:

The old order ends, no matter what Bastilles remain, when the enslaved, within themselves, bury the psychology of servitude.

Very, very few voters I’ve met realize they’re selling themselves into slavery when they presume to make decisions about other people’s lives. They cast their vote, as if they believe it were some sacrament to impose their mere preferences on their neighbors.

I see no reason to hope that any of these votistas will ever recognize that they’re propping up a structure that is devouring them.

The old order will never end, so long as voters refuse to question what they’re doing to themselves and their neighbors.

John McCain
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Some folks at the local newspaper’s forums can’t wait until November to get their spot by the side of the cannibal pot.

As I write this the forum results are 42%, 43%, and 15%.

As usual, 0% grasp the reality that they’re vicariously holding a gun to their neighbors’ heads.

My comment, earlier today at Mark Perry’s blog:

“Globalization and technology and automation all weaken the position of workers,”

So the flipside is: subsistence farming with nothing but crude hand tools strengthens the ‘position’ of workers.

The Obaminator would have that “strong government hand” securely around your neck.

To a man, the commenters at that link are arguing about symptoms. The underlying idea they never question is that it is acceptable to use force to accomplish anything.

The folks in Pillsbury, ND had an election, and no one came.

But on June 10, no one showed up. Not even those on the ballot.

Unfortunately, the zero turn-out wasn’t because they realized that voting is delegated coercion, or even for any sliver of recognition of the force underlying voting. They were all just too busy to gather round the cannibal pot that day.