By David Futrelle
Time to drag a few more terrible comments from the moderation queue to share with you all. Once again the most popular genre of comments I get from angry lady-haters is the time-honored “threat disguised as a warning and/or prediction.”
Let’s start with this “warning” from a dude calling himself BSG, which in this context definitely does not stand for Battlestar Galactica.
The fake news media is waking up to the inevitability of patriarchy. American elites see what’s happening to Europe and have decided they’d prefer not to be conquered and replaced. Big swinging dicks are going to run the show and put women in their place. That’s not up for debate. The current feminist dystopia is unsustainable. The only question is whether those in charge will be muslim alphas or western alphas.
Wait, we live in a feminist dystopia?
I guess Star Trek taught me wrong because I was pretty sure that feminist dystopias looked more like this:
Here’s a dude who wants us to know that it is the incels, not us, whose understanding of the world is backed up by LOGIK.
Lol. No one can actually debate incels based on logic. They are THOROUGHLY logical based on my perusal. What they say is based in undeniable fact. Whatever hypothessis they have that isn’t actually based on science would be backed up by it if it was of interest to academics, which for now, even after this thing is getting to crisis level, is still not … because no one cares to study it as long as men are on the losing side.
Those ellipses are doing a lot of work there. I left out most of his huge wall-of-text because my eyes glazed over reading it.
Luckily, an incel dude showed up to helpfully illustrate just how LOGICAL he and his fellow iucels soldiers are, if by “LOGICAL” you mean “full of rage and constantly threatening violence.” Take it away, “Incel Legion.”
We are Legion and i promess mass shooting will never end…Fuck you and fuck your world!!!!
Yeah, dude, I’m sure it’s your bone structure, not your murderous rage, that causes women to not want to sleep with you.
@ moggie
Heh yeah; although I suppose obligatory mention that it might just be Dick taking the piss out of Jack Cade,
It’s a well known fact that Jim Morrison’s grave has a higher crime rate than Caracus.
From personal experience I’d say the biggest risk is nearly being run over whilst standing in the middle of the road to take the compulsory photograph.
Scildfreja Thank you so much. I’m a (mostly) lurker of seven years and have learned a lot about true grace from you.
Fruitloopsie My cat, Koba, was an Oriental Short hair and they tend not to trigger allergies. So maybe it’s your cat’s fur that helps? Anyway, thank you.
Moggie That was so beautiful and exactly what I needed to hear. He’ll always be with me. (I’m old so it’s not the first cat I’ve had to euthanize, just the dearest to my heart.)
Oh dear, um. Do you think you could teach me what you’ve learned about that? ‘Cause I have no idea 😀
I lost a cat recently as well, and my surviving has a lot of health issues. I really sympathize. They do stay with you forever, though.
Krasnaya Koshka – More condolences. I had to put down my beloved Catbeast last October after fighting CKD for a year. It’s the worst part of getting older; losing loved ones.
My MIL fell in her apt over the long weekend. Husbeast got her to the ER yesterday and she was admitted last night. She was having delusions (she’s blind and apparently this is not unknown) and it’s really freaking out Husbeast. Now I’m having flashbacks to when my dad went into the hospital (he died three weeks later) and I can’t shake the feeling MILbeast will be gone soon, too. I know this is not rational, but I don’t feel rational right now.
@rugbyyogi:
~3 million people is about 1% of the population of the U.S., not 10%.
That same page says over 24 million to Canada, which doesn’t sound too out of line. I do note that this says ‘visits’, and I don’t think that this refers to independent visitors; it may be 8 million people who visit three times each. Independent visitors would require a lot more tracking than just counting people with passports crossing the border.
Also note that the number of Americans with passports increased significantly over the last generation, because it used to be that you didn’t need anything more than a driver’s licence to get across the U.S.-Canada border. The legal changes following 9/11 have resulted in more U.S. citizens with passports, but fewer actually travelling because it can’t be done casually anymore.
Can we set up a PayPal to pay for some quality time for these nutcases in a rubber room?
Maybe a year or two on an antipsychotic drip.
@BD1:
Comments policy…
‘Big swinging dicks running the show’ = that bit in Towering Inferno where the three malcontents try to overthrow the bosun’s chair lottery.
@ Hambeast,
All of our best wishes for your MIL 🙂
These things are so stressful. I am almost glad that my mom “went fast”. But there was all the “before that”.
We were able to have her live in her own home, do shopping and cleaning, “light” care taking. She had some health issues here and there, we did the best we could with it all.
And she was able to stay in her own place, and not go into a hospital or nursing home, which is what she wanted, and how we do it ‘in the family’ too, (friends are nodding along here). Even your “jerk” relatives are expected to, and do, step up. Grandma’s house needs work. You can take one day off of drinking and drugging. And you can go out and get wasted after.
Seniors stay at home, (complex medical issues beyond the scope of the average person excepted), you put in the effort to keep them in their own home or have them come stay with you.
Dealing with any health issues is all very stressful, regardless.
Hambeast, could MIL get laser eye surgery? Is this an option? My mom got this and it pretty much restored her vision. My one uncle too, he had bad cataracts and got it done through the VA. Of course my mom is the one who arranged all this ..
And my one cousin put the guy into a job, and a new home, and once he retired, then he depended on my mom for various things and she arranged for him to get this eye surgery. Yes it’s expensive, but he was a vet so could get it through the VA. Mom arranged for her own laser eye surgery and that was .. through Medicare? I don’t know, she handled it all herself. I think she did have to pay for part of it herself, possibly even 2 – 4 thousand dollars. She arranged it all herself.
I went with her to the appointments. They do one eye at a time, and I think they want others to drive you home. Mom? Jumped right back into her car and floored it as usual 😀
I hope your MIL will be OK, and just some thoughts, if there might be some vision help out there?
And good on you all for taking care of your seniors! 🙂
It is very hard and stressful. Remember, that it means a lot to them.
Hang in there,
Hugs from us all here 🙂
Z&T – MILbeast was in a very delusional state when Husbeast found her. They gave her Haldol yesterday because she kept insisting on getting out of bed to use the bathroom “in the apt downstairs” and being combative about it. We went to see her last night and she was zonked, but seemed to be merely confused rather than delusional. A psych eval has been ordered.
As for her sight, it’s just bad cataracts. But. She’s always had life-threatening allergies to almost all antibiotics and we haven’t been able to find a Dr. who will do the surgery without a course of prophylactic antibiotics. Plus, you have to use antibiotic eye drops afterward. Sigh.
Luckily, a CT scan came out negative for concussion and her EKG was normal.
As for me, I’m a bit of a wreck because this is all bringing my dad’s illness and death washing back over me in a big way. It was three weeks from the time he was hospitalized to dead. He did get to die in his house like he wanted, though, so worth it for sure.
Thanks for your kind thoughts, it really means a lot!