Thought for the Day

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I think as a rule each venue within you live and work rewards and punishments should follow a logic specific to that venue. You get tossed out of establishments because you’re disturbing the peace or harassing other customers or harassing the staff. You get tossed out of school for much the same reason, to which failing to pass your courses might be added. You get fired from your job due to deficits in your skills, attitude, and performance; making yourself unpleasant to co-workers or constituents, &c. You get complaints from your neighbors to the authorities because what you do on your property generates what economists call ‘externalities’.
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Having committed common crimes or a reasonable suspicion of having committed them is something we might generally agree properly influences and regulates how we’re treated in a variety of venues.
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The escalating trouble we’ve been having is that our adversaries believe that any deviation from their elaborate and protean set of p’s and q’s merits you being tossed out of commercial establishments, subject to official sanction from school administrators, driven off public property, fired from your job, and debarred from maintaining a bank account. This is very seldom done for any reason which is defensible outside a progtrash bubble.
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The problem we’re getting now is a large mass of people celebrating a criminal act, and posthumously defaming the victim in order to justify a criminal act. This is an extension of our adversaries usual attitude. We’re I a work supervisor confronted with this issue on my staff, the perpetrator would certainly get a Dutch uncle talk from me. I’m not sure it’s advisable as a matter of course to be sh!tcanning people, though I would like the creeps currently employed in education to be cleared out, higher education no less than primary and secondary education.
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Mr. McKenna who sometimes appears here lives in Chesterfield County, Va. A (Democratic) school board member there has been discovered to have made stupefyingly malicious remarks on social media. There’s a state election ongoing in Virginia and the outgoing governor and the Republican candidate to succeed him have put the spotlight on this woman. Evidently, Democratic Party sachems have told her she’s a rubber chicken around the neck of the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, so she’s ‘resigning’ but wants to stick around until the end of the year (presumably because her ‘resignation’ can be rescinded). What we used to say about adolescent drive-by shooters – “how do they get so mean so young?” – is a variant of what we might ask ourselves about the bourgeois twits who run for office under the Democratic banner (who are waved into office with cud-chewing indifference by their various constituencies).