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The Left's War On Joy
American Thinker ^ | 28 Jul, 2023 | Asher Pat

Posted on 07/28/2023 5:37:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Every leftist policy, whether centered around climate change, health, or something else, is designed to leech joy from our lives.

The average Western household is hardly aware of busybodies’ plans to ban or sabotage convenience appliances, from dishwashers to leaf-blowers. They also don’t know that, for years, the water flow in US showerheads is restricted so that they don’t fully enjoy their showers. In the same way, in Europe, vacuum cleaners are less powerful than required for best performance.

A recent article in the National Review entitled “The War on Things that Work“ describes a crusade by what the article calls “the Environmentalist Left” against “convenience” and against “things that work”.

But even more than convenience, the people behind the ungodly and anti-human ideology of Wokeism are after things that we, the humans, crave. “They” are after our joy.

The justification to reduce joy is often, although not solely, “Climate” or “limited resources,” but this nihilistic ideology invariably seeks and finds the rationale to oppose the things that make humans happy.

- Climate zealots in power harass pizzerias based on ludicrous reasoning precisely because of the joy of a freshly-made pizza to the ordinary man and woman, but no one seems to target the French Laundry. Sugar (vilified as the “white death”) is also bad for the climate as “sugarcane crops emit nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent greenhouse gas, with a global-warming potential 300 times higher than carbon dioxide.”

-Affordable only to the aristocracy before the Industrial Revolution, red meat has since become attainable for the great unwashed. It’s no coincidence then that climate zealots are going after meat, claiming that cow emissions are bad for the climate. In Germany, the government has a plan to limit that sausage-eating nation to 10 grams a day....

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 07/28/2023 5:37:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Whenever I am standing there waiting for the toilet to refill so I can flush for the second time, I imagine I am giving a leftist a swirly.


2 posted on 07/28/2023 5:37:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Whenever I am standing there waiting for the toilet to refill so I can flush for the second time, I imagine I am giving a leftist a swirly.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>..
Only twice?


3 posted on 07/28/2023 5:48:53 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: MtnClimber

I miss the old toilets. I fill a bucket in the tub and dump that in the toilet so I don’t have to wait.


4 posted on 07/28/2023 5:51:31 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (Haley 2024)
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5 posted on 07/28/2023 5:53:11 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Lol!

I’ve got to wonder how much water savings is going on if people are double and triple flushing?!


6 posted on 07/28/2023 5:56:43 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (Haley 2024)
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To: BlackAdderess

I finally found a satisfactory modern communist compliant toilet that actually flushed every time - but there’s one catch - you can’t buy the Home Depot version for $150, you have to get the contractor version for $400. They have identical names but different model #s.


7 posted on 07/28/2023 6:01:00 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Make the GOP illegal - everything else will follow)
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To: MtnClimber

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8 posted on 07/28/2023 6:14:03 AM PDT by sauropod (Sun Tzu: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”)
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To: Jim Noble

That’s a lot for a toilet, but good work!


9 posted on 07/28/2023 6:19:26 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (Haley 2024)
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To: MtnClimber

Harrass some Pizzerias and you will be part of the compost.


10 posted on 07/28/2023 6:48:42 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: MtnClimber

I keep a one gallon pitcher on top of the tank for an extra boost, so to speak. No waiting.


11 posted on 07/28/2023 7:09:15 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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Everyone thought of the same thing, toilets that don’t flush, but most people don’t remember who started the campaign against flushing toilets. It was CA Governor Brown, who should have been flushed down along with his ridiculous campaign.


12 posted on 07/28/2023 8:05:15 AM PDT by Eva
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It was CA Governor Brown, who should have been flushed down along with his ridiculous campaign.

You will croak, you little clown, when you mess with President Brown.

13 posted on 07/28/2023 8:11:28 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

Every liberal lives in abject fear that someone, somewhere may be having some fun!


14 posted on 07/28/2023 8:49:37 AM PDT by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: dfwgator

LOL! I never heard that one, but then Brown preceded my time in CA.


15 posted on 07/28/2023 10:31:12 AM PDT by Eva
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