I have b*tched for years about the selective outrage of the left side of the aisle and when they decide to COSPlay "Handmaid's tale" and I comment, "you want to see it for real? go to Iran, go to Afghanistan, go to every hardcore islamic regime and you will see a live example of it," but since the modern left views islam as fellow travellers in the intersectional victimhood games against Western civilization, they give them a pass not knowing what the future will hold if those guttersnipes actually get into power and start oppression 1.0 for real. I spent time in the middle east and north Africa and it definitely ain't Kansas anymore Toto. I've pretty much given up trying to explain this to people because they don't want to hear because they have gotten the latest NPC download from the MSDNC or wherever else they get the latest cause to be outraged about.
These yahoos want to see even a smidgen of what Iran looks like, or any Muslim-run country, just go to Dearbornistan, officially Dearborn, MI. I live about an hour north of there. It USED to be nice. Go to the Woodward Cruise annually, lots of time at the Henry Ford and Greenfield Village. Haven't been in 30 plus years because of how it's become. There are whole neighborhoods where the police won't go because there are actual "Cops Keep Out, Sharia Law Only Here" style signs up at the entries to said neighborhoods.
I had my fill to start with from the embassy kidnappings waaay back when I was barely over being a wee sprog. Scared me enough to watch Tehran go tits up on the news every night that I decided then that I never wanted to visit there. Then along comes 9/11 decades later, and I still haven't forgotten that. Yes, yes, I know, not all Muslims are bad people. But it only takes one bad apple to spoil the whole barrel, and there's a lot more than one bad apple in the bunch.
The whole sodding lot of them can generally be hucked back to the desert where they slithered out from, and stay there.
Yes. It is almost impossible to enlighten those who refuse to be enlightened. I also lived in Saudi Arabia (in both Jeddah and Riyadh) and lost my Western innocence pretty quickly.
While The Wife is willing, some days, to admit that Maggie has a lot to answer for in refusing to call an Islamic wet dream what it is, she usually prates on about the Patriarchy of Old White Christian Men being the source of much evil, thinks that HRC would have been far better than DJT, and ignores the Brandenburg Gate Speech of JRB*.
AWFL twats don’t want to see, hear, or read the truth, it’s too icky. Better to put on a costume and pretend that Trump is a fascist, illegal immigrants are all hard working, good people, Hamas is good for “Palestinians”, and Iran doesn’t exist.
It's hard. I know what i would like to do if i had the power. Even so i have to wonder what the unintendef consequences would be. I feel as if we save them then they dont need to be their own country any more. If they save themselves then they have skin in the game and respect.
Im not familiar with the culture of iran. Given the location i feel as if it is tribal as is most of that region. Maybe tribal doesnt matter if it is ethically driven with a basis in individual rights and belief that everyone has inalienable rights. Which comes out of a judeo christen philosophy and the trappings of western law derived from that background.
Can you change that massive gap in philosophys? It seems to me if you try to change/protect people living there it can only be done at the point of a gun. If you rape a woman we take you out back and introduce you to mr parabulem. If you participate, well again mr. P. The laws would have to be replaced and religion suppressed in the town square.
Islam is a religion that demands to be the only political system. And that system us antithetical to what the general western civilization believes.
As much as my heart goes out to the examples listed above i dont want nor do i believe it just to become what we would have to become to enforce a cultural change in cultures like that. Nor do i believe in our government over any period of time and changes in adminisrration to be trusted to maintain trust in agreements made. As a nation we have abrogated the majority of treaties and agreements we have ever made with groups that dont have the power to make sure they were inforced. Usually within a few years but for sure within a decade or so.
Not sure what if any answer there is that would truly move us forward.
The Useful Idiots™ on the Cosplay Front™ are garden-variety useful idiots. Those spinning up the useful idiots are doctrinaire Leninists rather than hypocrites. "What is moral is what advances the Party. Your bourgeois morality has no meaning here."
Ah, the blinkered and morally-selective progressive ... providing us all with yet another demonstration of their cosmic ignorance and selective outrage.
"suburban white liberal women can only fantasize about" probably "can only" should just be deleted to make a more accurate sentence. Also, nice use of the word "cockwomble". The Brits do have some wonderful slang.
Ummm, if they're making the neighbors' dogs bark (for almost 9 hours), then ... that would mean a .17 pellet to the noggin at close range? Because the ones that are NOT brain-damaged get close to that level of sympathy.
Iranian women have lived — suffered — under an oppressive regime that suburban white liberal women can only fantasize about, and the Iranian women would like it to end.
Well, that little fantasy they love to cosplay? The Handmaid's Tale? It was written ABOUT ISLAM.
Seen plenty of my particular circle decrying human rights abuses in Iran. As well as on the ground intel from colleagues who have gone to provide care in Ukraine and Palestine.
Doesn't mean state side loss of reproductive freedoms with directly observable medical fallout is something to be ignored. Been a lot of shocked "but I didn't think that meant *I* would be left to suffer" from moralizing religious women finding out the hard way that it does in fact mean their anencephalic or otherwise nonviable high risk pregnancy... and no room for medical decision making given how their state's laws are written.
Isn't it true of most that they don't understand until they truly see it for themselves?
On the subject of invasive crowd enforced "morality" how about that goddamn bathroom policing legislature in Kansas? Do these folks not understand that a bunch of this is going to lead to increased sexual assaults?
That genital checks in sports feeds into the same bullshit like Nassar used to exploit young gymnasts for *years* there? Ain't no "protecting women athletes" at the core of that game... just more predators salivating at the new excuse they can use.
Sorry, the laws on this are clear--if the abortion is needed to save the mother's life, it can be performed. That's written into every abortion ban in the states, AFAIK.
If doctors aren't willing to read the laws, what happens is on them.
And just so we are clear- I am not pro elective abortion as birth control with regard to my own ethics and philosophy. I am, however, very pro medical autonomy and not at all a fan of politicians dictating how physicians engage in their medical practice and ethics discussions with patients.
Doctors are being forced to wait until much less clinically safe situations in pregnancies where there is literally no other possible outcome which increases maternal morbidity and mortality. It's like draining a superficial abscess vs waiting until it's necrotizing fasciitis and the patient is septic.
Not a single TMFR (termination for medical reasons) is done with anything less than serious consideration. But there are now cases where legitimate TMFR are in fact being denied causing medical adverse outcomes not to mention compounding the trauma for families already facing tragic loss.
Obama-care. I've lost six OBs since it was implemented with connivance of women such as yourself who are incapable of perceiving the skull-crushingly obvious consequences of their choices. See also: abortion rights. S.a.: Giving untested modified RNA injections that have the capacity to transfect developing infant cells during the first trimester.
Hey Ian,
I have b*tched for years about the selective outrage of the left side of the aisle and when they decide to COSPlay "Handmaid's tale" and I comment, "you want to see it for real? go to Iran, go to Afghanistan, go to every hardcore islamic regime and you will see a live example of it," but since the modern left views islam as fellow travellers in the intersectional victimhood games against Western civilization, they give them a pass not knowing what the future will hold if those guttersnipes actually get into power and start oppression 1.0 for real. I spent time in the middle east and north Africa and it definitely ain't Kansas anymore Toto. I've pretty much given up trying to explain this to people because they don't want to hear because they have gotten the latest NPC download from the MSDNC or wherever else they get the latest cause to be outraged about.
These yahoos want to see even a smidgen of what Iran looks like, or any Muslim-run country, just go to Dearbornistan, officially Dearborn, MI. I live about an hour north of there. It USED to be nice. Go to the Woodward Cruise annually, lots of time at the Henry Ford and Greenfield Village. Haven't been in 30 plus years because of how it's become. There are whole neighborhoods where the police won't go because there are actual "Cops Keep Out, Sharia Law Only Here" style signs up at the entries to said neighborhoods.
I had my fill to start with from the embassy kidnappings waaay back when I was barely over being a wee sprog. Scared me enough to watch Tehran go tits up on the news every night that I decided then that I never wanted to visit there. Then along comes 9/11 decades later, and I still haven't forgotten that. Yes, yes, I know, not all Muslims are bad people. But it only takes one bad apple to spoil the whole barrel, and there's a lot more than one bad apple in the bunch.
The whole sodding lot of them can generally be hucked back to the desert where they slithered out from, and stay there.
Yes. It is almost impossible to enlighten those who refuse to be enlightened. I also lived in Saudi Arabia (in both Jeddah and Riyadh) and lost my Western innocence pretty quickly.
While The Wife is willing, some days, to admit that Maggie has a lot to answer for in refusing to call an Islamic wet dream what it is, she usually prates on about the Patriarchy of Old White Christian Men being the source of much evil, thinks that HRC would have been far better than DJT, and ignores the Brandenburg Gate Speech of JRB*.
AWFL twats don’t want to see, hear, or read the truth, it’s too icky. Better to put on a costume and pretend that Trump is a fascist, illegal immigrants are all hard working, good people, Hamas is good for “Palestinians”, and Iran doesn’t exist.
It's hard. I know what i would like to do if i had the power. Even so i have to wonder what the unintendef consequences would be. I feel as if we save them then they dont need to be their own country any more. If they save themselves then they have skin in the game and respect.
Im not familiar with the culture of iran. Given the location i feel as if it is tribal as is most of that region. Maybe tribal doesnt matter if it is ethically driven with a basis in individual rights and belief that everyone has inalienable rights. Which comes out of a judeo christen philosophy and the trappings of western law derived from that background.
Can you change that massive gap in philosophys? It seems to me if you try to change/protect people living there it can only be done at the point of a gun. If you rape a woman we take you out back and introduce you to mr parabulem. If you participate, well again mr. P. The laws would have to be replaced and religion suppressed in the town square.
Islam is a religion that demands to be the only political system. And that system us antithetical to what the general western civilization believes.
As much as my heart goes out to the examples listed above i dont want nor do i believe it just to become what we would have to become to enforce a cultural change in cultures like that. Nor do i believe in our government over any period of time and changes in adminisrration to be trusted to maintain trust in agreements made. As a nation we have abrogated the majority of treaties and agreements we have ever made with groups that dont have the power to make sure they were inforced. Usually within a few years but for sure within a decade or so.
Not sure what if any answer there is that would truly move us forward.
Where you used 'cake holsters', I'm sure auto-correct must have changed it from c$ck-holsters'.
I'm trying to keep these essays PG-13. Not always, you know, successfully.
Ian,
my apologies.
Hypocrisy is the wage that vice pays to virtue. De La Rochefoucald.
The Useful Idiots™ on the Cosplay Front™ are garden-variety useful idiots. Those spinning up the useful idiots are doctrinaire Leninists rather than hypocrites. "What is moral is what advances the Party. Your bourgeois morality has no meaning here."
Ah, the blinkered and morally-selective progressive ... providing us all with yet another demonstration of their cosmic ignorance and selective outrage.
When your goal is power, there's no need for consistent values.
"suburban white liberal women can only fantasize about" probably "can only" should just be deleted to make a more accurate sentence. Also, nice use of the word "cockwomble". The Brits do have some wonderful slang.
You hit the nail on the head again sir. Well said. Well said.
the sympathy reserved for brain-damaged possums
Ummm, if they're making the neighbors' dogs bark (for almost 9 hours), then ... that would mean a .17 pellet to the noggin at close range? Because the ones that are NOT brain-damaged get close to that level of sympathy.
Iranian women have lived — suffered — under an oppressive regime that suburban white liberal women can only fantasize about, and the Iranian women would like it to end.
Well, that little fantasy they love to cosplay? The Handmaid's Tale? It was written ABOUT ISLAM.
So, that tracks.
When you're right, you're bloody well Right, Mate. Please carry on!!
I think your Nightcafe illustrations are wonderful
Entirely consistent, however with "end western civilization and replace it with Marxist/Communist/yes-it-will-work-if-you-all-die-hard-enough-11!!!!
Seen plenty of my particular circle decrying human rights abuses in Iran. As well as on the ground intel from colleagues who have gone to provide care in Ukraine and Palestine.
Doesn't mean state side loss of reproductive freedoms with directly observable medical fallout is something to be ignored. Been a lot of shocked "but I didn't think that meant *I* would be left to suffer" from moralizing religious women finding out the hard way that it does in fact mean their anencephalic or otherwise nonviable high risk pregnancy... and no room for medical decision making given how their state's laws are written.
Isn't it true of most that they don't understand until they truly see it for themselves?
On the subject of invasive crowd enforced "morality" how about that goddamn bathroom policing legislature in Kansas? Do these folks not understand that a bunch of this is going to lead to increased sexual assaults?
That genital checks in sports feeds into the same bullshit like Nassar used to exploit young gymnasts for *years* there? Ain't no "protecting women athletes" at the core of that game... just more predators salivating at the new excuse they can use.
it does in fact mean their anencephalic or otherwise nonviable high risk pregnancy
Bushwa. Your entire comment is malarkey.
Hey, don't mind me. I just actually work in medicine and see what's happening with outcomes data.
Madam, your reproductive freedom is restricted by abortion bans in the same way that your property rights are restricted by the 13th Amendment.
Tell that to folks having to travel out of state to seek care for high risk or needed terminatiob and the increasing OB care deserts.
Sorry, the laws on this are clear--if the abortion is needed to save the mother's life, it can be performed. That's written into every abortion ban in the states, AFAIK.
If doctors aren't willing to read the laws, what happens is on them.
And just so we are clear- I am not pro elective abortion as birth control with regard to my own ethics and philosophy. I am, however, very pro medical autonomy and not at all a fan of politicians dictating how physicians engage in their medical practice and ethics discussions with patients.
Doctors are being forced to wait until much less clinically safe situations in pregnancies where there is literally no other possible outcome which increases maternal morbidity and mortality. It's like draining a superficial abscess vs waiting until it's necrotizing fasciitis and the patient is septic.
Not a single TMFR (termination for medical reasons) is done with anything less than serious consideration. But there are now cases where legitimate TMFR are in fact being denied causing medical adverse outcomes not to mention compounding the trauma for families already facing tragic loss.
Ah yes, the "personally pro-life, but..."
Obama-care. I've lost six OBs since it was implemented with connivance of women such as yourself who are incapable of perceiving the skull-crushingly obvious consequences of their choices. See also: abortion rights. S.a.: Giving untested modified RNA injections that have the capacity to transfect developing infant cells during the first trimester.
My original comment was too brief.
Feminism is self-inflicted brain cancer.
Oh. Ok. That's given me a good span of your medical reasoning, so I'll say good day and we'll leave it here. Take care.
Feminism is cancer.
That all you've got? Scintillating.