Posted on 03/28/2022 4:59:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
When ideologues demand power but cannot achieve it politically because they are cruel ideologues, expect more of their insanity to follow.
"Madness! Madness . . . madness!" — The Bridge on the River Kwai
With that exclamation, director David Lean ended his epic film about a dutiful but vainglorious British officer who sought to display to his Japanese captors superior British discipline and morale in a prisoner of war camp. As proof of British engineering superiority, he pursues his agendas by ordering his POWs to build for their Japanese captors a strategic bridge that otherwise they could not have built—only to try to destroy the efforts of fellow Allied soldiers sent to blow-up his masterpiece. For the delusional ideologue, reality must never intrude.
So it is now. When the rock of green and woke ideology hits the hard place of reality, sheer madness always results.
The world prices of oil and natural gas are skyrocketing. At the time of a major war in Ukraine, the Western democracies have framed the conflict as existential, with a Russia/Mordor on the attack against a declining West/Gondor.
A subtext of the struggle is that the world’s illiberal regimes—fossil-fuel exporting Russia, Venezuela, Iran, and the various Middle Eastern autocracies—are getting richer by the day while destroying Mother Earth, as noble gas and oil importing green Western nations can scarcely afford to drive or heat their homes.
Normally, the mad Left would not object terribly to the ensuing fuel price hikes. Remember, Joe Biden bragged on the campaign trail that he would end fossil fuels during his tenure.
Obama’s soon-to-be Energy Secretary Steven Chu said during the 2008 campaign he wished to see American gas prices match those in Europe (i.e. $9-10 a gallon). And then President Obama himself did not disagree.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
The left dreams of unicorns and rainbows and concentration camps for those who don’t agree with them.
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I saw Bridge on the River Kwai on Blu-ray a couple of weeks ago. A true masterpiece, beautifully filmed.
You know what’s madder? Today millions of American parents will leave their children at schools who teach them this agenda.
"Although Ukraine is the world's biggest producer of neon, ASML sources less than 20% of the gas it uses from those countries, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. Neon is a key material used in the gas-phase lasers used in chipmaking, and prices soared during the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2014." - Reuters
Surprised that they felt neon deserved special mention.
Regards,
Where I work, a young male co-worker and his female wife are expecting a baby. I congratulated my co-worker twice. The first time I asked if they knew and wanted to share the SEX of the baby. He responded they did not know the GENDER of the baby yet (his emphasis on gender). The second time I congratulated him, I didn't ask about the baby's sex again, but he again emphasized that they don't know the gender of the baby yet.
Since he emphasized it twice, I realized he might have been insulted when I asked about the baby's sex. Hmmm...also, it occurred to me that schools are teaching the young to use gender instead of sex. So I looked up the definitions of both words. Sex is the correct term when referring to the biology of a fetus. Gender refers to the societal and cultural "range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female". So this young father-to-be already is thinking in terms of not treating his baby as male or female.
Lawrence V Texas was handed down only 19 years ago ... that is all the time it took for the depraved to reach this fever pitch of madness once the door was kicked wide open.
One progressive nitwit (redundant, I know) on another forum said he was still waiting to see men marrying animals as if the fact that they weren’t yet, that there is a shade of madness further to go, means they arent full blown crazy already with genderism, etc.
Between support for abortion, poofters grooming kids, and genderism the American Left displays their ideological hatred of children, indeed of humanity.
And all the while there’s those going along to get along Republicans who honor their Democrat “friends” rather than their voters.
Planning for child abuse.
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Gender refers to the societal and cultural “range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female”. So this young father-to-be already is thinking in terms of not treating his baby as male or female.53”
Keep in kind that the left is perverting language as well. Websters 1828 dictionary shows that they took a grammatical construct and are applying it to fixed biology.
Gender
GEN’DER, noun [Latin genus, from geno, gigno; Gr.to beget, or to be born; Eng. kind. Gr. a woman, a wife; Sans. gena, a wife, and genaga, a father. We have begin from the same root. See Begin and Can.]
1. Properly, kind; sort.
2. A sex, male or female. Hence,
3. In grammar, a difference in words to express distinction of sex; usually a difference of termination in nouns, adjectives and participles, to express the distinction of male and female. But although this was the original design of different terminations, yet in the progress of language, other words having no relation to one sex or the other, came to have genders assigned them by custom. Words expressing males are said to be of the masculine gender; those expressing females, of the feminine gender; and in some languages, words expressing things having no sex, are of the neuter or neither gender
GEN’DER, verb transitive To beget; but engender is more generally used.
GEN’DER, verb intransitive To copulate; to breed. Leviticus 19:19.
The arrogance and narcissism of these bio(logy)-phobes - who are in the process of not only changing the language, but eventually will compel all others to do the same ... and will use companies and the law to do it.
At my workplace, I am starting to see the (He/Him) and (She/her) crap after peoples names in email or in instant message tools. When I see that, I will only refer to them by their actual name... never use the pronouns. Right now it is implicitly “voluntary” ... but it is subtle as they are using it also to identify who is in the “cultural pogrom” and who will need to be forced into it or let go. I see at some point they will make it mandatory. Big Tech will help them out ... e.g. MS will upgrade their software someday and require w/o exception each user to upgrade their “profile” and select the appropriate bio-phobe gender.
I started noticing that this last week that an attorney customer of mine had his pronouns listed on his email communication, I figured he was just a gaybot sending out a coded message.
I guess I'm one to push these sort of issues. I'd probably reply " I'd be hoping for a boy so I had someone to rough house with" or "I would like a girl just like my wife."
Until the "woke" era, "gender" was mostly confined to the field of linguistics. Now even conservatives are starting to use the term in lieu of "sex."
Even here on FreeRepublic, many will use the incorrect term of “gender” when they mean “sex”.
Also, using “Black” instead of “black”, “sexual orientation” instead of “sexual preference”, “undocumented immigrant” instead of “illegal immigrant (or alien)”, etc. All of these misuses of terms play right into the hands of the left.
If you coworker’s wife has a boy, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if he wants to have a takeadickfromme operation performed on him before he even reaches school age.
That would be heartbreaking and disgusting. I would not want to know about it if that occurred.
When someone goes there with me I tell them straight up: If you think you have to tell me that, henceforth your pronouns are “Dumbass” and “it”.
Of course, I am long since retired and not worried about soft soaping boss, business relationships or customers...
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