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p my drainage ditch are now visiting my neighbors because I'm at the top of a hill and there was just enough water to carry the rocks all the way down the hill and around to the neighborhood. So yesterday I spent much of my day cleaning up rocks from my neighbors in front of my neighbor's homes. But on the good side it did drain just about where it was supposed to. It's just that whole rock buoya…
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Now to me it looked like a portal from hell. So it was reported as a weather related phenomenon but I'm pretty sure those are demons and the demons are made entirely of feces and fentanyl. So San Francisco figured out a way, and I think they had to think pretty hard. They thought, "Huh, we've created a dystopian hellscape but is there any way we can take that up a level? Is there any way to top it in 2023?" And then they did. They managed to aerosol the problems that they had already. So now they're shooting the fecal matter and the fentanyl up into the air. So now that it's aerosol that should work out fine.
On Twitter today somebody said is it really that bad in San Francisco or is this all hyperbole? To which I said how the hell would I know? I live an hour from San Francisco and you couldn't drag me there with a bulldozer. There's literally nothing you could do that would get me into San Francisco. Like I'm gonna wait until it's not a dystopian hellscape and then maybe visit. That's my plan.
How many of you saw the bully slapping video that I tweeted yesterday? It's getting a lot of views. So I think it was in Germany. There were some school kids and the setup was, I'm guessing the ages but approximate ages were some boys maybe 14 years old I'm guessing, sitting on a bench in some kind of school setting outside. And there was a young girl who maybe was 16. She was bigger, bigger than the boys on the bench. And she was sort of getting in the face of one of them who was you know completely backed up. And then she started to say something that was physically threatening so you can see he was putting his arms up because he thought she was going to hit him. Somebody translated it and said something like "I'm not going to hit you." You know he was trying to avoid a fight.
So the girl keeps berating him and berating him and finally she just leans in and just smacks him. So boy's 14, sort of a normal looking 14 year old boy. She's 16 but definitely bigger. How do you think that worked out for her? It didn't work out so well. He stood up, slapped the piss out of her. And then you know she immediately recoiled in pain and horror. But then he starts to walk away having exactly matched her violence. You know he didn't exceed it, he just matched it. And then he walked away and then she went after him again. This time it didn't go so well.
Yeah I'm not gonna glorify the violence because we don't support violence right? Nobody's promoting violence. The larger story here is the reaction to the video. The video itself is you know two people have a situation that doesn't really go beyond that but how we reacted to it really was interesting. Really interesting because there's a whole male female thing happening at least in America that is checking the boundaries of things. Has the power structure changed? You know so a lot of people were seeing more in this little story than really what it was about. It was about two people basically but we automatically put that into our model of the world.
Now at the same time just for context I tweeted a great thread on all the anti-white male discrimination that's now in my view institutionalized. Aaron Sibarium goes through all the examples from the past year or so of direct government discrimination against white males. And when I say direct I mean they actually say it. We're going to give these benefits or even COVID shots or COVID treatment or even hospitalization. We're going to give it to these races and we're going to give less of it to white people.
Now I'm saying white males because you know the gender thing is in here but not in that example. So when you see the number of let's say medical and also college and school related things that are clearly designed to minimize the advantages I guess of being white and male and to boost other groups. Now this is all sort of the backdrop.
So when a bunch of white men see a tweet of a young white male slapping the crap out of a bully it really hits you someplace you wanted to be hit. And this isn't good. Just look how bad it is that a whole bunch of white men, mostly white I mean not all obviously it was you know my Twitter feed is a mixture of people, but just think about the fact that a whole bunch of white men looked at that video and said "Yeah, kick the shit out of that woman. She had it coming."
Now I'm not arguing whether she had it coming. We're not promoting violence. I'm just saying we've actually got to the point where white men are celebrating violence against women. And by the way that's why Andrew Tate is so popular. Nobody says it out loud but white men and men are feeling so abused lately that when somebody goes in public and says it's okay to hit women again, I'm not promoting that you know we don't like any violence, but things have gone so far that young men are saying "Yeah I'm down with that. Let's hit women because I'm tired of the way things are going."
Again just to be as clear as possible not promoting it, not condoning it, not celebrating it. We don't do that. But I'm observing. I'm observing and what I observe is kind of scary because there's one thing that you don't want to happen is to push white men too far. I don't think it's going to happen because we're pretty good at bending but you don't want to push them too far because like the woman who slapped the boy I believe that there's a completely misleading understanding of how much power is on the other side that's being held back. You don't want that to be unleashed.
So just sort of in your thinking about how to deal with people in the world just consider it's all connected right? Everything's connected. If you push too far and you're right at the edge, you're
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right at the edge right now. If you push too far there's going to be a reaction that nobody's going to like. One of the reactions is that men have given up on dating women. There's an estimate I saw, I don't believe predictions that go this far into the future, but something like in the year I don't know 2050 or something or 2030 half of all women in the reproductive ages would be single. Half of…
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