Random Upda…Smash! Sam Angry! Sam Smash!
Posted: October 31st, 2007 | Author: Sam | Filed under: Blog Posts, Individualism, Libertarians, Rambling, Randomosity, Religion, Scary Stuff, Stupid Stuff |
Tomorrow begin..neth the novel. But today? There’s nothing but angry, but pure, unadulterated fury. Shall we begin?
-My best friend in the blogging universe is one Josh Foust. He has worked dilligently since whenever we first met, turning his Conjecturer into a well read site. Well-read enough that he managed to simultaneously infuriate the Instapundit and Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald we’ll get to in a minute, but first, the Instapundit.
Dear Instapundit,
Stop being an idiot. Stop holding the mainstream media to expectations that you’d never place upon yourself. Stop writing ‘Heh’ and ‘Indeed.’ Stop pretending that you aren’t a vacuous mouthpiece of the Bush Administration. Also, stop being a douchebag.
The irritating thing about Greenwald is that I’ve spent the last several weeks really getting to like the guy. Sure, he trends toward absolutism, like every blogger on planet Earth, but he really had a good streak going recently, in which his criticisms seemed spot on and his analysis read well. So what’s to explain his idiotic refusal to, yknow, actually look at Josh’s blog before describing it as a garden variety pro-war blog. Where on Earth is he getting this crap from? More importantly, don’t we live in a world where bloggers can exist in the netherworld that exists between “I Love George Bush” and “I Hate George Bush.” Or are we back on some stupid playground somewhere where you’re either with me and my friends, or you’re against us, and there’s simply no possibility that different people can take different positions and learn, against all odds, to co-exist with one another? I probably know the answer.
-Meanwhile, revisiting the repression of children, here we have the story of a young woman suspended from school for having maroon weaved into her microbraids. Because holy fucking Moses, if a young girl has maroon weaved into her microbraids, western civilization as we know it and understand it will crumble into the abyss almost immediately. How can we possibly move forward if one girl somewhere decides that she wants to have maroon - of all colors!?!?!? - in her hair. Thank God we’ve given teachers and administrators the right to decide what is and isn’t distracting to the other students. Without their dilligent repression of any individuality at all, what would we have but kids in school with vague differences? And for fuck’s sake people, we absolutely cannot have that! We have to have uniformity in our students! We have to! Jesus Christ fucking declared it in the Bible somewhere…or, umm…something…I don’t even know. Principal Sandy Somogyi is just stupid. That’s all there is to it.
-Idiots.
-Finally, this little slice of blatant racism which will, predictably, go unpunished. Libertarians might argue that, “Nobody should be forced to take care of those people!” and of course, they’d be right. But pointing guns at them and telling them to go back toward the hell that they were coming out of? Particularly if the people holding the guns are whites and the refugees are black? You’ll excuse me if I believe that there was more going on here than limited supplies. Clearly, the whites didn’t want the blacks in their town. You’ll excuse me if I don’t think that’s a good enough reason to threaten violence to keep them out.
[...] Bestest Blog Buddy Sam wrote perhaps one of the nicest things about me I’ve ever read: “He has worked dilligently since whenever we first met [in 2002, Sam, 2002–j.f.], turning his Conjecturer into a well-read site. Well-read enough that he managed to simultaneously infuriate the Instapundit and Glenn Greenwald.” For a while, I’ve been convinced that my most well-developed trait is my dubious ability to infuriate people of all persuasions more or less equally (though I didn’t really infuriate Greenwald, so much as unintentionally highlight his severe tardbaggery). [...]
Stories like that last one make me sympathetic to what is called “take and pay” theory. Take it now, but you have to pay for it later, and with interest.
The jerk who shot over the crowd needs a lesson in decency.
My overarching question regarding this problem: where were the Christians of that town and why weren’t they on the side of the evacuees? That places blame with the ones who ought to accept responsibility. Everyone else is absolved.
I’m a libertarian, and I would argue that preventing people from accessing lifesaving supplies or egress from a disaster zone (particularly if you have no clear evidence that they plan to steal said supplies rather than, say, bartering for them or appealing to the supply-owners sense of decency and charity) is assault at best, attempted murder at worst. And police should be held to higher standards than the rest of us because they are permitted to use force in circumstances where the rest of us are not allowed to.
I really think that in your zeal to find someone to hate on lately, you’re pinning libertarians with a lot of very weird positions that aren’t remotely in line with what most libertarians (particularly libertarians over the age of 19) actually believe.
When a man gets angry he falls down.