Posted on 09/23/2022 2:31:55 PM PDT by Drew68
I'm posting this in the "Smoky Backroom" because as of now, it's nothing more than an anecdotal anonymous post on 4Chan that is now getting retweeted, but here it is:
If true though...
I disagree. He was true to himself and almost gets fired. In retaliation, he mocks them in a way they can do nothing. Kids, especially shop class kids, probably respect him for making the school impotent while mocking them.
Yep. He also remains attracted to women and often sported an erection in the locker room (which, to be fair, I would also if I were permitted to walk around a women's locker room full of naked coed swimmers).
I'm tossed the idea around that Thomas might be faking it but I'm not entirely convinced. He could just be a self-centered, narcissistic degenerate.
This shop teacher though... I'm really thinking he's pulling a fast one on the woke school administration.
I've looked all over for that post and can't find it. Can you help?
Looks like a safety hazard around those machines
It seems as if he is applying Rule #4 from Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”.
Here is the complete list from Alinsky.
RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”
Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)
RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.”
It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don’t address the “real” issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)
RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)
RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid “un-fun” activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)
RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
Don’t become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)
RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.”
Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists’ minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)
RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”
Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management’s wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)
RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
Good point!
Trump was really the first guy on our side who was a student of Alinsky and knew how to apply it.
Now there are many.
Instead of bad-mouthing Alinsky as a Marxist (which he was), we should've been following his rules the whole time.
Here you go:
Alinsky didn’t invent the rules, they’ve been used for centuries.
When they come for you I bet that you would be apologizing for being such a poor leftist as they haul you to the campus. s.
Absolutely. But still, he simplified, organized, and put them in an easy to understand manifesto that the Left quickly embraced as their own.
Rules that the Right can also quickly embrace.
Alex Stein excellent troll of Portland city council => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJhpU7c0TkE
Thanks for the link. I’m glad I’m old.
yeah, i want to know wth she was laughing at...
ping
That appears to be his game plan. It appears that he has sacrificed whatever dignity he had left (he is a "teacher", after all), in order to get a payday and quit teaching.
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