I’ve recently gotten to know someone who played Division I (the highest level of) college basketball from 1978-82 and now coaches a high school team. I asked him, “What’s the biggest difference between the way you were coached and how you coach your players?”
Non Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPI) were about control. Period. I said to a buddy way back in 2020 the way everybody is relinquishing the freedom our soldiers died to preserve is sickening.
I said it reminds me of that scene in “Stripes” when John Candy peeks out the back of the troupe carrier and is met with a couple of armed Czech soldiers. He then proceeds to hand over all the weapons from his entire battalion. Hand em over guys…
That’s what we did we just gave up over a germ and handed everything over to the enemy. Fucking cowards. And, masks? They’re just leftist attire. A gag. Fittingly appropriate.
The guy I said all this to had been my close friend for over 25 years. Always fancied himself a Conservative Patriot. We used to go to lunch and chat regularly. Now he refuses to speak to me.
Here is my second comment. I'm about your age. About 20 years ago my 9yo son wanted to take a fencing class. The description said that the class was open to anyone age 9 to 69. So I decided, impulsively, to sign up too.
The class was filled with about 60 kids, mostly boys, and a handful of parents like me.
The teacher was an Eastern European former Olympic champion. (we lucked out!) She was probably 69 years old, and had a heavy accent.
The first class she gave a quick but thorough overview of what we would be learning, and then handed out equipment and we began with the basics.
The second class was intense, as she walked around the room, CRITICIZING our form and behavior in an extremely Eastern European serious (harsh) manner. That day, when we got home, my son said to me, "whoa, what's up with the teacher. She's kinda mean." He was surprised by her, compared to his other teachers he was more used to.
I said, "well, she's an Olympic Champion; she has a lot to teach us, and I can tell she knows what she's doing. She also obviously wants her students to learn well, to learn the right techniques from the beginning. She is definitely strict, but is that necessarily a bad thing? Is her criticism personal, or is it to help you learn the right way to fence?" He thought about it, and he said, "I see what you mean. I want to learn fencing, and I think she's a good teacher."
The third class, guess what? Half of the kids didn't return. They dropped out, and I can only assume it was because they couldn't handle the criticism. But the rest of the class stuck it out, and we learned a ton. My son ended up loving the teacher, and you could tell that she was pleased with our progress. She continued to be very strict, but she would also smile if you did things correctly.
By the way, none of this criticism was personal; it was just very pointed and direct. That's how you learn.
Hi Mark! Long time. I just haven’t had much to add…. But I think I do here: “They” marginalized and canceled us. I mean on a personal level. They let their fear they “caught” from TV and MSM conquer their common sense. Even within families, we were marginalized and treated horribly. My doctor still calls me a “flat earther.” So, like the typical cupcakes they’ve allowed themselves to become, they prove they can dish it out, but they can’t take it. As JJ. Couey says: They are skilled TV Watchers.
It’s not just progressives, but almost the whole of the medical field that went along. Doctors as a rule, resist the urge to admit error, for obvious reasons( questioning authority, legal jeopardy, ego etc). We were supposed to be “ smart” and help our patients figure this out, but most went along like lemmings off the cliff. It doesn’t mean there were no doubts, but the pressure was intense, and only a few openly questioned these policies. I have very little faith in my own medical community after this, unless a loud mea culpa is expressed. Punishment of the ringleaders is necessary.
So many of the go-along to get-along crowd used their self-righteousness to beat others into submission. I imagine that false sense of superiority is too painful to relinquish by admitting you made a mistake.
Good one. I recognize exactly what you're talking about. The culture has changed, both at the individual level and, in general, the institutional level. Suffice to say, I used to teach now and then; I no longer do, and it is precisely for this reason.
To be human is to make mistakes, whether often or on occasion; being able to recognize and acknowledge (and depending on the context, sometimes, also ask forgiveness for) a mistake, learn from it, and then move on from it, is a crucial life skill. People who don't have this skill are a danger to themselves and to others.
This was great. Thanks for writing it. One comment here, and I'll write another comment following this one:
Here's why progressives can't deal with the hurt feelings (I'm way oversimplifying BTW): because of the slow-drip indoctrination at least over our lifetimes, accelerating with each succeeding generation, progressives are all about putting people into groups or boxes, even while they decry stereotyping. Their poor minds have been so bent into pretzels that they cannot see the contradictions and it's very uncomfortable to have it pointed out to them, because their identity is based upon being part of certain group(s). People who do not think in this way (not all conservatives, and others besides, and you'll see why in this sentence) consider people as individuals primarily, although obviously there are many groups we might belong to. But the individual is primary to the group.
The group is very self (group)-reinforcing, and if a person steps out from that, they "die" -- they cease to exist, can be ostracized, etc. Group identity is all-important. When people see themselves and each other as individuals, there is no threat (or greatly diminished) because the foundation of that person's identity is up to them, and can be strengthened or knocked down and rebuilt by criticism..... it is much easier to do that when it is all up to that one person and not the approval or disapproval of the group which has been absorbed into that person's identity.
Also, much easier (and back in the day much easier) when more people identified as individuals and saw the many examples of other individuals receiving criticism and dealing with it, and learning that it doesn't kill you.
A local dairy farmer friend, Ralph, had retired and was looking for something to do to get himself out of the house. The superintendent of schools suggested that he would make one hell of a bus driver, and the school system was in dire need of drivers, so Ralph gave it a go.
Ralph was old school, raised in the era of one room schoolhouses. when the teacher would mete out appropriate punishments to Little Johnny who would, in most cases, go home to another round of punishment. Things went well until one day a particular Little Johnny started acting out and causing trouble.
Ralph had enough and pulled the bus over and grabbed the little bastid by the collar, hoisted him up out of the seat and gave him a good talking-to.
Three days later, Ralph was no longer a school bus driver, and was threatened with an assault charge for trying to maintain order on the bus.
Obviously, Ralph had not kept up with the "advances in child development trends" over the years.
Looking at those "advancements" today will give one some insight into why today's young people act the way they do.
God help us if we have to depend on those people to defend this country when (not if) we are faced with a major threat.
Most, if not all, of my improvement as a human being has come as a result of recognizing that I was wrong about something, somehow, and that if my feelings were hurt by being wrong, I had to man up and correct my behavior anyway. And apologize for my mistakes, too, and make things right.
“I was wrong. I’m sorry. How can I make things right, and how can I do better next time?”
I feel absurd having to even type out something that seems so simple and obvious, but after the last few years maybe the whole world needs to go back to kindergarten and start over.
I think we are the last somewhat thougher generation. The kids nowadays are raised sissies. They cannot stand at the front door in the dark, hell I had to ride a bicycle or go by foot 2 miles in the pitch black dark in the morning and in the coming dark at night! If there is some wind or heavy rain the school closes. We had not one day in all the 15 years when we were allowed to stay home for bad weather, and when I worked, no presence no pay. The kids now are raised to sit still and obey orders, not to think for themselves, and to do exactly as the govt says. Look how little youth is among the farmer's protesters, that is about their food! It used to be students who stood up first. Now they greatly belong to the sheeple
Excellent points. I’m guessing we’ve all experienced the condescension from our pedigreed friends. The funny thing is, because I’m a long-term mainstream medical everything hater, I KNOW I’m smarter and more informed than them. I KNOW I’m (and have been) right. I read and study and when I’m done, I read and study some more. I never turn myself over to some authority and leave my brain at the door. We (my brother and me) knew right from the start that there was something fishy going on and certainly didn’t buy into the fear of a winter cold. Just because you went to college, it doesn’t make you smarter, in fact in many ways it makes you dumber. Just a crowd following dolt who’s probably still wearing masks.
The "we couldn't have known at the time" trope is such Bullshit. Mark deserves credit for his well documented and elegantly articulated clarity of vision from even early-on. The argument of we couldn't have know completely obliterates any supporting planks for "Dual-use" research. These things (including spike protein exposure incident cardio myopathy) were well studied and documented. As early as fall 2019 David Rubenstein's lionizing Fauci interview foreshadowing his up upcoming world tour stated clearly people should not be walking around in masks. My 1s sleepless night Plandemonium era reading was an MMWR Report on Pandemic Preparedness (vol 66, No.1). There was a very useful quartile graph for severity and tricks were as simple as decimal misplacement. Making Coronamania appear off the chart bad. But all of these things indicate there was a read-in, complicit collective of people who used ambiguity and obfuscation to fool the world via idiot feckless mainstream miscreant media who can't even tell that Ellis Island is still above water. The lie of the we didn't know in the beginning is among the biggest and best clues that it was never about health.
The traits you observe in progressives are systemic to the left. It is the reason they can pursue policies and ideologies even after they've been shown to be wrong, damaging, and lethal to others, and even themselves.
Pride is one of the few sins God does not forgive, unless the the perpetrator admits it and is contrite. As you point out, very few on the left can do so, for the the reasons you list. This is why they support policies that are destructive to everyone, including themselves and their love ones. To do otherwise would be to admit error (or sin) and they are not going to do so, no matter what.
Like you and others who read you, I and my family are unvaxxed and had to deal with family and others who were and criticized and even cut us off, because of it. One turbo cancer and one repeatedly requiring extensive hospital stays, with only margin improvement. We don't encage in "I told you so" comments, but neither do we tolerate any criticism. I sympathize with those who were forced to be injected, in particular the children and young adults; they trusted adults to protect them. The others, who condemned or attacked us, our attitude is that you reap what you sow and those people are reaping the whirlwind. There is some rough justice being delved out to them.
I saw many red flags at the beginning of the scamdemic.
I suffered a heart attack on April 3, 2020, so I had to ride 60 miles in an ambulance to get to a hospital that could deal with it. I was really concerned about the hospital being overwhelmed with Covid based on news reports, and people freaking out. The hospital was empty. After the bypass surgery, I found out that there was only myself and 2 others in ICU,, my nurse said there was only a couple of patients in the whole hospital. When I shared this information on social media, I was immediately attacked by the leftist crowd as a liar, because, you know, the talking heads on their tv wouldn’t lie to them. Considering the fact that anyone who bucked the narrative was vilified and mocked, it makes no sense that anyone would lie, especially when it was a personal experience. I lost respect for many in my family and friends who were reeled in by the media and the “health professionals” who were lying to their faces and that they would take the word of the media before someone who actually cared about them. The good thing is that I was introduced to people who I know can trust, and I know who I will never trust again with anything.
Non Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPI) were about control. Period. I said to a buddy way back in 2020 the way everybody is relinquishing the freedom our soldiers died to preserve is sickening.
I said it reminds me of that scene in “Stripes” when John Candy peeks out the back of the troupe carrier and is met with a couple of armed Czech soldiers. He then proceeds to hand over all the weapons from his entire battalion. Hand em over guys…
That’s what we did we just gave up over a germ and handed everything over to the enemy. Fucking cowards. And, masks? They’re just leftist attire. A gag. Fittingly appropriate.
The guy I said all this to had been my close friend for over 25 years. Always fancied himself a Conservative Patriot. We used to go to lunch and chat regularly. Now he refuses to speak to me.
Here is my second comment. I'm about your age. About 20 years ago my 9yo son wanted to take a fencing class. The description said that the class was open to anyone age 9 to 69. So I decided, impulsively, to sign up too.
The class was filled with about 60 kids, mostly boys, and a handful of parents like me.
The teacher was an Eastern European former Olympic champion. (we lucked out!) She was probably 69 years old, and had a heavy accent.
The first class she gave a quick but thorough overview of what we would be learning, and then handed out equipment and we began with the basics.
The second class was intense, as she walked around the room, CRITICIZING our form and behavior in an extremely Eastern European serious (harsh) manner. That day, when we got home, my son said to me, "whoa, what's up with the teacher. She's kinda mean." He was surprised by her, compared to his other teachers he was more used to.
I said, "well, she's an Olympic Champion; she has a lot to teach us, and I can tell she knows what she's doing. She also obviously wants her students to learn well, to learn the right techniques from the beginning. She is definitely strict, but is that necessarily a bad thing? Is her criticism personal, or is it to help you learn the right way to fence?" He thought about it, and he said, "I see what you mean. I want to learn fencing, and I think she's a good teacher."
The third class, guess what? Half of the kids didn't return. They dropped out, and I can only assume it was because they couldn't handle the criticism. But the rest of the class stuck it out, and we learned a ton. My son ended up loving the teacher, and you could tell that she was pleased with our progress. She continued to be very strict, but she would also smile if you did things correctly.
By the way, none of this criticism was personal; it was just very pointed and direct. That's how you learn.
Hi Mark! Long time. I just haven’t had much to add…. But I think I do here: “They” marginalized and canceled us. I mean on a personal level. They let their fear they “caught” from TV and MSM conquer their common sense. Even within families, we were marginalized and treated horribly. My doctor still calls me a “flat earther.” So, like the typical cupcakes they’ve allowed themselves to become, they prove they can dish it out, but they can’t take it. As JJ. Couey says: They are skilled TV Watchers.
It’s not just progressives, but almost the whole of the medical field that went along. Doctors as a rule, resist the urge to admit error, for obvious reasons( questioning authority, legal jeopardy, ego etc). We were supposed to be “ smart” and help our patients figure this out, but most went along like lemmings off the cliff. It doesn’t mean there were no doubts, but the pressure was intense, and only a few openly questioned these policies. I have very little faith in my own medical community after this, unless a loud mea culpa is expressed. Punishment of the ringleaders is necessary.
So many of the go-along to get-along crowd used their self-righteousness to beat others into submission. I imagine that false sense of superiority is too painful to relinquish by admitting you made a mistake.
Now that a few family members have cancer , I’ve been isolated even more. ….. crazier than crazy psyops .
Good one. I recognize exactly what you're talking about. The culture has changed, both at the individual level and, in general, the institutional level. Suffice to say, I used to teach now and then; I no longer do, and it is precisely for this reason.
To be human is to make mistakes, whether often or on occasion; being able to recognize and acknowledge (and depending on the context, sometimes, also ask forgiveness for) a mistake, learn from it, and then move on from it, is a crucial life skill. People who don't have this skill are a danger to themselves and to others.
This was great. Thanks for writing it. One comment here, and I'll write another comment following this one:
Here's why progressives can't deal with the hurt feelings (I'm way oversimplifying BTW): because of the slow-drip indoctrination at least over our lifetimes, accelerating with each succeeding generation, progressives are all about putting people into groups or boxes, even while they decry stereotyping. Their poor minds have been so bent into pretzels that they cannot see the contradictions and it's very uncomfortable to have it pointed out to them, because their identity is based upon being part of certain group(s). People who do not think in this way (not all conservatives, and others besides, and you'll see why in this sentence) consider people as individuals primarily, although obviously there are many groups we might belong to. But the individual is primary to the group.
The group is very self (group)-reinforcing, and if a person steps out from that, they "die" -- they cease to exist, can be ostracized, etc. Group identity is all-important. When people see themselves and each other as individuals, there is no threat (or greatly diminished) because the foundation of that person's identity is up to them, and can be strengthened or knocked down and rebuilt by criticism..... it is much easier to do that when it is all up to that one person and not the approval or disapproval of the group which has been absorbed into that person's identity.
Also, much easier (and back in the day much easier) when more people identified as individuals and saw the many examples of other individuals receiving criticism and dealing with it, and learning that it doesn't kill you.
A local dairy farmer friend, Ralph, had retired and was looking for something to do to get himself out of the house. The superintendent of schools suggested that he would make one hell of a bus driver, and the school system was in dire need of drivers, so Ralph gave it a go.
When I heard about it, it was one of these
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Ralph was old school, raised in the era of one room schoolhouses. when the teacher would mete out appropriate punishments to Little Johnny who would, in most cases, go home to another round of punishment. Things went well until one day a particular Little Johnny started acting out and causing trouble.
Ralph had enough and pulled the bus over and grabbed the little bastid by the collar, hoisted him up out of the seat and gave him a good talking-to.
Three days later, Ralph was no longer a school bus driver, and was threatened with an assault charge for trying to maintain order on the bus.
Obviously, Ralph had not kept up with the "advances in child development trends" over the years.
Looking at those "advancements" today will give one some insight into why today's young people act the way they do.
God help us if we have to depend on those people to defend this country when (not if) we are faced with a major threat.
Most, if not all, of my improvement as a human being has come as a result of recognizing that I was wrong about something, somehow, and that if my feelings were hurt by being wrong, I had to man up and correct my behavior anyway. And apologize for my mistakes, too, and make things right.
“I was wrong. I’m sorry. How can I make things right, and how can I do better next time?”
I feel absurd having to even type out something that seems so simple and obvious, but after the last few years maybe the whole world needs to go back to kindergarten and start over.
I think we are the last somewhat thougher generation. The kids nowadays are raised sissies. They cannot stand at the front door in the dark, hell I had to ride a bicycle or go by foot 2 miles in the pitch black dark in the morning and in the coming dark at night! If there is some wind or heavy rain the school closes. We had not one day in all the 15 years when we were allowed to stay home for bad weather, and when I worked, no presence no pay. The kids now are raised to sit still and obey orders, not to think for themselves, and to do exactly as the govt says. Look how little youth is among the farmer's protesters, that is about their food! It used to be students who stood up first. Now they greatly belong to the sheeple
Excellent points. I’m guessing we’ve all experienced the condescension from our pedigreed friends. The funny thing is, because I’m a long-term mainstream medical everything hater, I KNOW I’m smarter and more informed than them. I KNOW I’m (and have been) right. I read and study and when I’m done, I read and study some more. I never turn myself over to some authority and leave my brain at the door. We (my brother and me) knew right from the start that there was something fishy going on and certainly didn’t buy into the fear of a winter cold. Just because you went to college, it doesn’t make you smarter, in fact in many ways it makes you dumber. Just a crowd following dolt who’s probably still wearing masks.
The "we couldn't have known at the time" trope is such Bullshit. Mark deserves credit for his well documented and elegantly articulated clarity of vision from even early-on. The argument of we couldn't have know completely obliterates any supporting planks for "Dual-use" research. These things (including spike protein exposure incident cardio myopathy) were well studied and documented. As early as fall 2019 David Rubenstein's lionizing Fauci interview foreshadowing his up upcoming world tour stated clearly people should not be walking around in masks. My 1s sleepless night Plandemonium era reading was an MMWR Report on Pandemic Preparedness (vol 66, No.1). There was a very useful quartile graph for severity and tricks were as simple as decimal misplacement. Making Coronamania appear off the chart bad. But all of these things indicate there was a read-in, complicit collective of people who used ambiguity and obfuscation to fool the world via idiot feckless mainstream miscreant media who can't even tell that Ellis Island is still above water. The lie of the we didn't know in the beginning is among the biggest and best clues that it was never about health.
"Vaaaanity..."
"...is 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 my favorite sin."
Says the Devil (Al Pacino) to lawyer Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reaves) in 1997 film, 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒍'𝒔 𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆.
The traits you observe in progressives are systemic to the left. It is the reason they can pursue policies and ideologies even after they've been shown to be wrong, damaging, and lethal to others, and even themselves.
Pride is one of the few sins God does not forgive, unless the the perpetrator admits it and is contrite. As you point out, very few on the left can do so, for the the reasons you list. This is why they support policies that are destructive to everyone, including themselves and their love ones. To do otherwise would be to admit error (or sin) and they are not going to do so, no matter what.
Like you and others who read you, I and my family are unvaxxed and had to deal with family and others who were and criticized and even cut us off, because of it. One turbo cancer and one repeatedly requiring extensive hospital stays, with only margin improvement. We don't encage in "I told you so" comments, but neither do we tolerate any criticism. I sympathize with those who were forced to be injected, in particular the children and young adults; they trusted adults to protect them. The others, who condemned or attacked us, our attitude is that you reap what you sow and those people are reaping the whirlwind. There is some rough justice being delved out to them.
Danny Huckabee
I saw many red flags at the beginning of the scamdemic.
I suffered a heart attack on April 3, 2020, so I had to ride 60 miles in an ambulance to get to a hospital that could deal with it. I was really concerned about the hospital being overwhelmed with Covid based on news reports, and people freaking out. The hospital was empty. After the bypass surgery, I found out that there was only myself and 2 others in ICU,, my nurse said there was only a couple of patients in the whole hospital. When I shared this information on social media, I was immediately attacked by the leftist crowd as a liar, because, you know, the talking heads on their tv wouldn’t lie to them. Considering the fact that anyone who bucked the narrative was vilified and mocked, it makes no sense that anyone would lie, especially when it was a personal experience. I lost respect for many in my family and friends who were reeled in by the media and the “health professionals” who were lying to their faces and that they would take the word of the media before someone who actually cared about them. The good thing is that I was introduced to people who I know can trust, and I know who I will never trust again with anything.